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Dendroica townsendi, r.viKD. 



TOWNSEND'S WABBLEB. 



S>th-la fnini.ifiidi, " XriiAM.," TnWNisr.Nn, ,1. A. N. Sc. VII. ii, IHliT, li"l. ^- Ai'n. Orn. 

 I5iog. V, 18:J'.t, 111. i'iMxi:iii. Siilviaitu t. liiiN. ; Arn. liiiils Am. 11, 1841, \\\. .\iii. 

 Dniii-olra I. r.Aiiiii, liiiils X. Am. IS.^.S, 2(i!» ; I!cv. IS'i. — .Sci.ATKii, P. Z. S. l.s.l.s, 

 •2ns (Oaxaca; \\\^\\ lamls in wiiitiM) ; 1S;V,I, :i7 t (Totonti'pi'c ; winter) ; lliis, ISti.'), SO. 

 — Sci.ATKU k Sai.vis, lliis, IS'i'.t, 11 ((iiiati'niala). — CiiDl'KU & SrcKl.r.v, 1'. 1{. I!. 

 XII, II, 18.'.!), 179 (Cal.). — Tuusuri,!., Birds of Kiist IViin., cU:. IStJlt, 4-.'. — Si:niik- 

 vai,, Divers. lS()i>, tillt ^.Sitka). — (.'iml-Klt, Orn. Cal. 1, 1S70, >.)1. 



Sp. Char. Sjiriii;/ male. Aliovc hrifrlit olivc-fircen : tiic Irallicis all lilack in the centre, 

 ,'<lio\vina: more or Ifs.s a.s .stn^aks, espcrially iju llie cniwii, where the black pretloiiiiiiate.s. 

 Quills, tail, ami upper tail-ecivert fealhers ilark lirowii, edyed with hhiish-},n-ay ; the 

 wings with two white hands on the coverts; the two outer tail-leathers white with a 

 brown streak near the end; a white streak only in the end ol' the th: ' leather. I'nder 

 parts as far as the middle of the hody, with the sides of head and neck, n hiding; a super- 

 ciliary .'stiiije and a spot lieneath the eye, yellow; the inedian portion of he si<le of tlu; 

 head, the chin and throat, with streaks on the siih's of the hreasi, Hanks, and under lail- 

 covcrts, hlack ; the reinaiiuler of the under parts while. Length, 5 inches; wing, 2.05; 

 taill, 2.2.-,. 



Spriiii/ femide Resenililing the male, hut the l)laek patch on the throat replaced by 

 irregular blotches upon u pui'e yellow ground. 



Had. AVesterii Proviuee of ITiiitcil States, north to .Sitka; Mexico, into Guatemala. 

 Migratory. Accidental near i'hiladclphia. 



The autuiiiniil iulult nitilo i.s iimeh liki; lliii sprint feuiiik', but the black 

 throiit-imtch is jieit'ectly deliiied, thmigli iiiiich obscured by the yellow edi,'e.s 

 of the t'eatber.s, instead of broken into snudl blotches. The young male in 

 aiitunui is similar in general appearance, but there tire no streaks above, excc])t 

 on the crown, where they arc mostly concealed ; the stripe on side of iiead 

 is oliviiceous, instead of black ; and nearly all tlie black on the throat is con- 

 ce.ded. 



A line adult male of this sjiecies was taken near IMiiladeliihia, Peiiu., in 

 the spriiio of l.StiS, and is now in the collection of the late W. V. Tiirnbull, 

 Es(|., of tiiat city. 



ILviJiTs. Ill regard to the habits of this very rare Western Warbler very 

 little is iis yet positively known, tind nothing whatever litis lieeu ascertained 

 as to its nesting (jr eggs. Tiie sjiecies wtis first met with by Mr. Townsend, 

 October liS, IHof), on the banks of tiie Columbia llivcr, and was named by 

 Mr. Nutttdl in honor of its discoverer. It is sjiokeii of by these gentlemen 

 as having been a tmnsient visitor only, stojjping but a few days, on its way 

 north, to recruit and feed, jirevious to its ih-parting for the higher latitudes in 

 which it spends the breeding-season. It is, Iiowexer, (piite as probtible that 

 they disperse by ptiirs into solitary places, where for a while they escape ob- 

 servation. When the season again com])els them to migrate, they reapiioar 

 on the same ]»ath, only this time in smidl and silent flocks, as they slowly 

 move toward their winter (piarters. These birds also are chiefly to be found 

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