638 GOLDEN-CROWNED WARBLER. 



the inner webs of the three outer feathers : legs 

 dusky. 



The first variety principally differs in having a 

 white line over the eyes, and their orbits being 

 also of that colour : the fore-part of the neck and 

 breast are only spotted with blackish, and not, as 

 in the former, a stripe of that colour varied with 

 blue ; the yellow on the sides of the breast is pro- 

 duced into a slender band that encircles that part; 

 and the plumage above is very deep grey blue, 

 scarcely spotted with black. 



The next, or Grasset Warbler, has the body 

 above greyish olive, sprinkled with black: the 

 throat and fore-part of the neck are varied with 

 pale rufous and ash-colour; in other respects it 

 agrees with the first. 



The Umbrose Warbler is destitute of any par- 

 ticular marks on the lower parts of the throat and 

 breast, those parts being white, with one or two 

 dusky spots : it likewise wants the stripe through 

 the eyes, so conspicuous in the first described. 



All the above varieties are found in the United 

 States, where they make their appearance in the 

 spring, and return in the autumn : they get very 

 fat before their departure, when they are greatly 

 prized as a delicacy. 



This species arrives in Pensylvania in October, 

 where it remains three or four weeks, feeding on 

 red cedar berries ; it then leaves, departing to the 

 south : about the middle of April it returns : it is 

 a lively active bird, but has scarcely any note, 

 having only a kind of chirp, which is frequently 

 repeated : its nest and eggs are unknown. 



