680 YELLOW-BELLIED WARBLER. 



the same, with a spot of yellow on each side near 

 the base of the beak : from the beak, passing 

 through the eyes, is a stripe of black : the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, are of a beauti- 

 ful grey : the wing-coverts are brownish, and are 

 marked with two white bars : the quills are also 

 brownish, but paler than the coverts : the throat 

 and fore-part of the neck are bright yellow, and 

 are bounded by the streak that passes through the 

 eyes : the rest of the under parts of the plumage 

 are white, sprinkled on the sides with black : the 

 tail is slightly forked, and has all but the two 

 middle feathers whitish on the inner webs : the 

 legs are brown : the female is destitute of the 

 black and yellow markings on the head. This bird 

 is very abundant in Carolina. 



YELLOW-BELLIED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia fuscicollis.) 



SY. mrescentefusca^pectore aldominequejla'ois, cauda virescente, 



tectricibus alarum remigibusquejuscis, margine rufescentibus. 

 Greenish-brown Warbler, with the breast and abdomen yellow ; 



the tail greenish ; the wing-coverts and quills brown, with 



reddish margins. 



Sylvia fuscicollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 520. 38. 

 Motacilla fuscicollis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 959. 

 Fauvette de Cayenne & gorge brune et ventre jaune. Buff. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 163. 

 Yellow-bellied Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 440. 34. 



