230 NoltTJJ AMEIUCAX liJUDS. 



patch on tlic siiic ol' tlii' Ijicast, L'iiiiilMii^i'-yt'llow ; space Ix'iicatli and anterior to llic I'Vi'S, 

 foicpart ot" breast anil sides, l)iai-k ; this color extending; licliind on the sides in streaks. 

 Middle of belly, luider tail-coverts, a porlion of upper and lower eyelids, and a broad band 

 on the wings, with ii spot on each of llie four or five cxlerior tail-leathers, white; rest, 

 of tail-fealhcrs bli'ck. Fiiniile brown aliove: the other niarkiMirs less coiis])iciioiis and less 

 black. Leny:tli, 5.:;.'); \vi'.ii,'s. Ji.'JO ; tail, "J.i;"). Yoiukj. tirst pluniauf, whole Ijody, inehid- 

 ing head all roinid and rump, i()ns[)icuoi;sly streaked with slaly-black upon an ashy ground 

 above and while below, ^.'o yellow on crown, rnnip, breast, or thioat. AVings an<l tail as 

 in autunnial adull. 



Wxa. Western an<l Middle Provinces of the I'nited States; Cape St. l/ucas; Western 

 Mexico and Orizaba? Oaxaca (cold regions, October, yci..\Tt:ii) ; (iuatemala (Salvix). 



This bird is very closely allied to D. coroiudd, but is distiiiouished by the 

 yellow (not white) throat ; the absence of a superciliary white stripe (the 

 eyelitls ^vhite, however); the restriction of the black of the face to the lores, 

 and to a suffusion round the eye ; and the presence of ont; broad band on tiie 

 uinjis, instead of two narrow ones. 



Habits. This betiutifiil Warbler, .so strikinoly simulating; the J), mronula 

 in the character of its niarkinos, and now so Well known as a common sj)ecies 

 on the Pacific cotist, wiis first met with by Mr. Townsend near the C"oluinbi!i 

 Iiiver, wiiere he found it very alnindant. Mis account of its haliits is incon- 

 sistent, and probalily not rclialik*. Mr. Niittall, who \tas willi Mr. Town.send, 

 dilfers, also, essentially in his account, lie states that lie lirst saw them about 

 the middle of Ajjril, and that their song bore a very close resemblance to that 

 of tlie J>. asficK, but was delivered in a much su]ierior style. They remained 

 his sunnner comi)anion.s, breeding amono' the siiady tiis on the liorders of 

 prairie openings^ where there was an abundant siijiiily of insect food. ]^>y the 

 8tli of -lune he fouiul their youno; already out, in small and busy Hocks, so- 

 licitcmsly attended by their jiarents. They oreatly resembled tlie youiio of 

 the ivronaht. These liirds fi('(|ueiilcd large trees, particuhirly the water-oaks, 

 and the lower branches of gigantic lirs. 



Dr. Cooper ibund this Warbler one of the most al)undant sjiecies of Wiisli- 

 ingtnn Territory, and lielieved tlicm to be, to some extent, a rcsiiU'ut s])ecies, 

 as he mot tiiem aliout the Straits of Fuca in March. He s]ieaks of its song 

 as lively, and heard everywlicre on the liorders of the woods, even near the 

 coast, where k'w of the smaller s]iecios excr visit. I:i the fall he noticed 

 straggling flocks of the yiuing wandering about She low shruliliery in large 

 niindjcrs. Tiie same writer also states that this species is in winter a \fry 

 abundant liird in the southern part (d' ( 'alifornia, Hitting abcait among tiie 

 Imshes and low trees. The males are then in the dull plumage of the females, 

 and do md ]iiit on their richer hues until ^larcli or .\piil. He saw none 

 south of San Franci.sco after May 1, but tiiey liegan to reappear in September. 

 As lie found newly Hedged young near Like Tahoe, he thinks they breed 

 throughout the higher Sierra Xevaila. At the sea level in latitude .">7° they 

 a])j)ear lute in Se]itember, and remain until March L'd. 



Dr. iSuckley regarded this bird as the most abundant species visiting Uie 



