KENTUCKY WARBLER. 683 



the plumage above is deep olive-brown : the fore- 

 head is black: the crown of the head reddish 

 yellow : the quills are fringed with olive-yellow : 

 the sides of the head are black : the throat and 

 breast bright yellow : the belly and vent are yel- 

 lowish white : the tail is similar to the quills : the 

 legs are dull flesh-colour : it varies in having a 

 transverse band of white on the top of the head, 

 passing from eye to eye : the sides, thighs, and 

 vent, are orange, the former palest: legs reddish: 

 in other respects similar to the first. The last is 

 the male, according to Vieillot. 



KENTUCKY WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia formosa.) 



SY. olivaceo-viridis suUusjlava, vertice, lorisque nigris, superciliis 

 maculaque infra oculosjlams, capite subcristaio. 



Olive-green Warbler, beneath yellow, with the crown and lores 

 black ; the eyebrows, and spot beneath the eye, yellow ; the 

 head slightly crested. 



Sylvia formosa. Wils. Amer. Orn. 3. 85. 



Kentucky Warbler. Wils. Amer. Orn. 3. 85. pi. xxv./. 3. 



LENGTH five inches and a half: head slightly 

 crested: the crown deep black, towards the hind 

 part spotted with light ash : upper parts of the 

 body olive-green : tail nearly even at the end, .and 

 of a rich olive-green : its inner webs, and those of 

 the wings, dusky : the lores, and a stripe on each 



