370 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 



inclining to orange; vent white; back, scapulars and lesser wing 

 coverts yellow olive; wings, rump and tail coverts a lead blue; 

 interior vanes of the former black; tail nearly even, and black, 

 broadly edged with blue, all the feathers, except the two mid- 

 dle ones, are marked on their inner vanes near the tip with a 

 spot of white; bill long, stout, sharp pointed and wholly black; 

 eyes dark hazel; legs and feet a leaden gray. The female dif- 

 fers in having the yellow and blue rather of a duller tint; the 

 inferiority, however, is scarcely noticeable. 



