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SYLVICOLID^E : AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



KENTUCKY WARBLER. 

 OPORORNIS FORMOSA (Wils.) Bd. 



Chars. " Clear olive-green ; entire under parts bright yellow, olive- 

 shaded along sides ; crown black, separated by a rich yellow 

 superciliary line (which curls around the eye behind) from a broad 

 black bar running from bill below eye and thence down the side 

 of the neck ; wings and tail unmarked, glossed with olive ; feet 

 flesh-color ; 5| ; wing, 2|~3 ; tail, 1-2^. Young birds have the 

 ' black obscure if not wanting; in the fall, the black feathers of 

 the crown of the adult are skirted with ash." 



A valuable contribution to the biography of this bird 

 will be found in the record of its breeding at Sing 



Sing, N. Y., June 19, 1875, 

 where a specimen was shot, 

 a female seen, and a nest and 

 three eggs were taken by Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher (Am. Nat., ix, 

 Oct., 1875, p. 573). It was 

 also found by Mr. J. Wallace, 

 as recorded by Mr. E. P. Bick- 

 FIG. 37. -KENTUCKY WARBLER. ne u during the breeding sea- 



( Natural size.) T TVT T 



son, at Fort Lee, N. J., and 



some years since a nest and five eggs, with the female, 

 was taken there (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, July, 1878, p. 



In those portions of the United States where the 

 Kentucky Warbler is numerous, it will be found to 

 haunt shrubbery, or the dense undergrowth of luxu- 

 riant woods, often among piles of fallen logs or other 

 debris, and to keep near the ground, where, like 

 a SiuruS) and unlike most Warblers, it walks very 



