740 GREEN WARBLER. 



the nostrils, over the eye, chin, and sides of the 

 neck, rich yellow : ears orange : at each angle of 

 the eye is a spot of black : hind head, back, rump, 

 and tail-coverts, yellow olive, thickly streaked with 

 black : the exterior edges of several of the greater 

 wing-coverts are pure white, forming a broad bar 

 on the wings ; rest of the wing dusky, slightly 

 edged with dark olive-yellow : the sides beneath 

 the wings are also of the latter colour, striped 

 with black : belly and vent yellowish white : tail 

 forked; the feathers dusky black, edged with olive- 

 yellow ; the three outer ones on each side marked 

 on their inner vanes with a spot of white : the 

 yellow on the throat and sides of the neck reaches 

 nearly all round it, in the manner of a collar, and 

 is very bright. It inhabits swamps on the Cape 

 May coast. 



GREEN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia virens.) 



SY. olivacea, gutturenigro,peciore, collicapitisquelateribusjlavis t 



abdomine, crisso alarumquejdsciis duabus albis. 

 Olive Warbler, with a black throat j the breast and sides of the 



head and neck yellow ; the abdomen, vent, and two bars on 



the wings, white. 

 Sylvia virens. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 537- 112. Fi7. Ois. de 



VAmer. Sept. 2. 33. Wils. Amer. Orn. 2. 137. 

 Motacilla virens. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q85. 

 Ficedula pensylvanica gutture nigro. Briss. Orn. App. 104. 



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