YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 723 



THIS active species frequents the deep pine and 

 hemlock forests of North America, amongst moss 

 and swamps : it is in length five inches and a half: 

 beak black : the upper parts of its plumage deep 

 olive-green, glossed with blue, particularly on the 

 edges of the tail and head : wings dusky, but so 

 broadly edged with olive-green as to appear wholly 

 of the latter colour; immediately below the greater 

 coverts there is a triangular spot of yellowish 

 white : the three exterior tail-feathers have each 

 a spot of white on their inn^r webs ; the tail itself 

 is slightly forked : from the nostrils, over the eyes, 

 extends a fine line of white, and the lower eyelid 

 is touched with the same tint : lores blackish : 

 sides of the neck and coverts of the ears olive- 

 green : the entire lower parts of the colour of 

 yellow ochre, with a tinge of greenish : throat 

 dusky: legs long, and flesh-coloured: both sexes 

 are similar in plumage. 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia superciliosa.) 



SY. supra virescens, subtus pallida, verticis stria pallida, super- 



ciliisjlavis. 

 Warbler above greenish, beneath pale, with a pale stripe on the 



crown, and the eyebrows yellow. 

 Sylvia saperciliosa. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 526. 63, 

 Motacilla superciliosa. Gmel. Sj/st. Nat. 1. $j5. 

 Yellow-browed Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 4O0. 61. 



