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I. virens. Above olivc-j;i-('(>ii ; lienoiitU fi:iuiil)()p;('-y('llow tor tlio antpi-ioi- half, 

 ami wliilo lor the pcistorioi-. A white sliipe over the eye. 



Length ol' tail, ;!.30 inches. Huh. Eastern United States to the I'lains; in 

 winter throni,'h Kiislern Mexico to (inateniala .... var. r ire its. 



Length of tail, o.TO inclu's. Huh. Western United States Irom the Plains to 

 the Pacilic ; W'estern Mexico in winter var. lo ii i/i cu iid a . 



Icteria virens, Baiku. 



TELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 



Tin-dm virnm, I.inn. Syst. Nat. l(»tli cil. 17r.>s, 171, no. 10 (liascd on (EmintlM nmcricfiiin, 

 pir/dir lutrn, Yellow-breasted Chat, Ca iKsiiv, I'arol. 1, tab. SO), hkria vimix, It.vmn, 

 Hev. Am. H. 18tU, 228. Mumaiim viriilix, fi.Mui.is, Syst. Nut. I, 1788, i)3(i. Ii-ln-iu 

 viiklis, Hon.; Ai'I). Orn. Bioj,'. H, pi. cxxxvii. — IUiiu>, Hirds N. Am. LS.'kS, 248. 

 Icteria diimecnhi, ViKll.L. Pipru iinlijijiillii, W'li.s. ! lelcria vclasqiiexi, IJoN. 1'. Z. S. 

 1837, 117 (Mexico). —Sci,ArKR& S.u.v. Ibis, I, 18.'.i>, 12 ((iuatemak). 



Localities ([uott'd : <-Wrt A'/iv/, ('auan. Orizahu {wintft), ti^vM. YuaiUii), Lawk. 



Sr. CiiAH. Third and I'onrth ipiills longest ; second and fifth little shorter ; first nearly equal 

 to the sixth. Tail graduated. lT]iper ])arts" uniform olive-greon ; under parts, including 

 the inside of wing, gainlioge-ycllow as far as nearly half-way from the point of the bill to 

 the tip of the tail; rest ol under i)arls white, tingcil with brown on the sides; the outer 

 side of the tibiie phnnbeons; a slight tinge of orange across the breast. Forehead and 

 sides of the head ash, the lores and region below the eye blackish. A white stripe from 

 the nostrils over the eye and involving the upper eyelid ; a patch on the lower lid, and a 

 short stripe from the side of the lower mandible, and running to a point opposite the hinder 

 border of the eye, white. \\\\[ black; feet brown. Female like the male, but smaller; 

 the markings indistinct; the lower mandible not pure black. Length. 7.40; wing, 3.25; 

 tail, .'i.aO. Xest in thickets, near the ground. Eggs white, spotted with rcddi.sh. 



ILvii. Eastern United States, west to Arkansas; rare north of Pennsylvania; south to 

 Eastern Mexico and (Juatcmala. Not noticed in West Indies. 



Both sexes in winter appiirently have the 

 base of lower mandible light-colored, tlie 

 olive more brown, the sido.s and crissiim 

 witli a strong ocln-aceoiis tinoe. It is this 

 plumage that has l)een recognized as I. vc- 

 Insqufzi. 



H.VHlTS. The Yellow-breasted Chat is 

 Ibnnd tliroughout the Eastern United States, 

 from '.ssaclnisetts to Florida, and as i'ar to 

 the WLst as Kort liiley and Kastern Kansas. 

 Mr. Say nuit with it among the Itocky ^^olUl- 

 tains its far north as the sources of tlie Arkan- 

 sas. It is not very rare in Massiicliusetts, but 

 a few breed in that State as i'ar north as Lyiui. It has been found in Mexico 

 and (iuatemala, but not, so far as I am aware, in the West Indies. 



Probably no one of (»ur birds has more distinctly marked or greater pecu- 



Irtfria virrns 



