342 WOOD WARBLERS. 



2. Belly yellow. 

 A. Throat slute-color ; haunts near the ground. 



a. Breast showing traces of black, no white eye-ring : rare in most 

 places 679. MOURNING WARBLER. 



b. Breast with no traces of black, a white eye-ring ; call a sharp 

 peek' / very rare "in the spring . . 678. CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



E. Throat black. 



a. Forehead and crown yellow, wings with white bars, a black 

 line through the eye ; very rare. 



641 + 642. LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. 



b. Forehead and cheeks yellow, rest of the head and sides of the 

 neck black ; outer tail-feathers almost entirely white ; haunts near 

 the ground, generally in wet woods ; movements active, the white 

 tail-feathers showing conspicuously in flight; lower Hudson Val- 

 ley southward ; common. ..... 684. HOODED WARBLER. 



c. Forehead yellow, a small black patch on the crown, white patches 

 on the tail not reaching to the ends of the feathers ; range, South 

 Carolina southward 640. BACHMAN'S WARBLER. 



HI. Throat yellow or orange, under parts with streaks. 

 (In one species a blackish brown band across the 

 breast.) 



1. Belly white, with or without black streaks. 



a. Throat rich orange; back, black streaked with white; tolerably 

 common 662. BLACKBTJRNIAN WARBLER. 



b. Throat bright yellow, back grayish ; range, Virginia southward ; 

 abundant 663. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



663a. SYCAMORE WARBLER. 



c. Throat yellow, with a blackish band crossing the upper part of the 

 breast; abundant 648. PARULA WARBLER. 



2. Belly yellow, with streaks or spots on the breast or sides. 

 A. With black streaks or spots on the under parts. 



a. Back grayish, unstreaked ; a necklace of black spots on the breast ; 

 no streaks on the sides or white on the wings or tail ; common. 



686. CANADIAN WARBLER. 



b. Back black, crown grayish, a black stripe through the eye ; breast 

 and sides streaked with black ; end of tail black, a white band 

 across its middle ; common .... 657. MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 



c. Back streaked with white, center of the crown and line over the 

 eye orange 662. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



d. Back greenish, streaked with black ; crown black, a rufous ear- 

 patch, a white patch on the wings, rump yellow; rare. 



650. CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



e. Back greenish, with a patch of rufous-brown ; haunts second 

 growths and old bush-grown pastures ; common in some places. 



673. PRAIRIE WARBLER. 



/. Back grayish, streaked with black ; crown bluish ; no conspicuous 

 white marking on the wings; very rare in the United States. 



670. KlBTLAND'fl WARBI.KU. 



