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LOUISIANE WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Ludoviciana.) 



SY. olivacea, gutture pectoreque rubro-maculato Jlavis, abdomine 

 ochroleuco, alarum fasciis duabus, rectricibusque duabus ex- 

 timis intus ad apicem albis. 



Olive Warbler, with the throat and breast yellow, spotted with 

 red ; the abdomen yellowish white ; the wings with two bands, 

 and the two outer tail-feathers white towards the tip within. 



Sylvia ludoviciana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 535. 1O5. 



Motacilla ludoviciana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 983. 



Ficedula ludoviciana. Briss. Orn. 3. 50O. 55. pi. l6.f. 4. 



Figuier a gorge jaune. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 288. 



Louisiane Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 4O7. 303. Lath. Gen. 

 Syn.4.480. 101. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter: beak brown, 

 with the lower mandible grey: the plumage on 

 the upper parts of the body olive-green : wings 

 with two white stripes : the quills dusky brown, 

 with blue-grey edges, and their inner webs white : 

 the fore-part of the neck and breast yellow, the 

 latter spotted with red : the rest of the under parts 

 yellowish white : the two outer tail-feathers tipped 

 with white on their inner webs, and the next with 

 a small oval spot at the tip: legs cinereous: the 

 female has the breast plain. It inhabits North 

 America. 



