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L virens. Above olive-irrctMi ; benejith <rainb(><;»'-y«'llow tor the anterior half, 

 and white for the posterior. A white stripe over the eye. 



Lenufth of tail. .J.iJO inches. Hah. Eastern United States to the Plains; in 

 winter throu«i;h Eastern Mexico to (Juateniala .... var. r ire its 



Length of tail, .{.TO inches. Ifuh. Western United States from the Plains to 

 the Pacific ; Western Mexico in winter var. lo inji ca >i^f a 



Icteria virens, Baiud. 



TELLOW-BBEASTED CHAT. 



Tardus virens, LiNX. Syst. Nat. 10th cd. 17'»8, 171, no. 1(5 (luiscd on CEnanfJie amcrieann, 

 jhctiire Itifen, Yrllow-breastcd Chat, Catkshy, Carol. I, tab. ;'>(>». IcterUi vircuji, IJaiku, 

 livv. Am. IJ. IStU, 228. Museiatpn ciri-Us, (I.melin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, WMS. let, ri<i 

 riridis, JioN. ; Ai i>. Oni. IJiog. If, j>l. cxxxvii. — Haiku, Birds N. Am. lsr»8, 248. 

 Ictcrid didiieaihi. Vikill. Pipro itidijijhittd, Wils. f hterio vdusquczi. Box. P. Z. S. 

 1837, 117 (Mcxiio).— ScLATEii & Salv. Ibis, I, 18.'»9, 12 ((JuatemaluK 



Localities (piotcd : Costa Riot, Caban. nrizubn (winter). Sum. Vuaiton, Lawk. 



.^p. Char. Third and fourth (piills longest ; second and fifth little shorter : first lu'arly equal 

 to the sixth. Tail graduated. Upper parts' uniform olive-green; under parts, including 

 the inside of w^ing, gamboge-yellow as far as nearly half-way from the point of the bill to 

 the tip of the tail; rest ot under parts white, tinged with brown on ihe sides; the outer 

 side of the tibi:e plumbeous: a slight tinge of orange across the bnjast. Forehead and 

 sides <if the head ash. the lores and region below the eye blackish. A white stripe from 

 the nostrils over the eye and involving the upper (yelid : a patch on the lower lid, and a 

 short stripe from the side of the lower niandil»le, and running to a point opposite the hinder 

 border of the eye, white. Bill black: feet brown. Female like the male, but smaller; 

 the markings indistinct; the lower mandible not pure black. Length. 7.40; wing, 3.25; 

 tail, .■J.oO. Xest in thickets, near the ground. Eggs white, spotted with reddish. 



Hab. Eastern Luiiti'd States, west to Arkansas; rare north of Pennsylvania; south to 

 Eastern Mexico and (Juateniala. Not noticed in West Indies. 



Both sexes in winter apparently have the 

 base of lower mantlible light-colored, the 

 olive more brown, tlie sides and crissuin 

 with a strong ochraceotis tinge. It is this 

 plumage that has been recognized as /. ve- 

 lasquczi 



Habits. The Yellow-breasted Chat is 

 found throughout the Ilastern United States, 

 from Massachusetts to Florida, and as far to 

 the west as Fort Uiley and Eastern Kansas. 

 Mr. Sav met with it ainon«4 the Iiocky Moun- 

 tains as far north as the sources of the Arkan- 

 sas. It is not very rare in Massachusetts, but 



a few breed in that State as far north as Lynn. It has been found in Mexico 

 and (Tuatemala, but not, so far as I am aware, in the West Indies. 



Probably no one of our birds has more distinctly marked or greater pecii- 



Irteria virens. 



