340 YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 



This species is five inches and a half in length, and eight and 

 a half broad; the whole back, hind head and rump is a fine light 

 slate colour; the tail is somewhat forked, black, and edged with 

 light slate; the wings are also black, the three shortest seconda- 

 ries broadly edged with light blue; all the wing quills are slight- 

 ly edged with the same; the first row of wing coverts are tipt 

 and edged with white, the second wholly white, or nearly so; 

 the frontlet, ear feathers, lores and above the temple, are black; 

 the line between the eye and nostril, whole throat and middle 

 of the breast brilliant golden yellow; the lower eye-lid, line 

 over the eye, and spot behind the ear feathers, as well as the 

 whole lower parts, are pure white; the yellow on the throat is 

 bordered with touches of black, which also extend along the 

 sides under the wings; the bill is black, and faithfully repre- 

 sented in the figure; the legs and feet yellowish brown ; the claws 

 extremely fine pointed; the tongue rather cartilaginous, and 

 lacerated at the end. The female has the wings of a dingy 

 brown, and the whole colours, particularly the yellow on the 

 throat, much duller; the young birds of the first season are with- 

 out the yellow. 



