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WOOD WARBLERS. 



2. Belly yellow. 

 A. Throat wlute-color ; linunt« near the frround. 



a. Brcuht showing trueea of bluck, no white eye-rinj(: rare in most 

 placet) 07'J. Moiknino Wakklek. 



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

 peek; very rare in the spring . . 078. CoNNEcTictx Wauulek. 



J?. Throat black. 



a. Foreheatl and crown yellow, wings with white bars, a block 

 lino through the eye; very rare. 



C41 + C42. Lawrence's Warbler. 



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

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

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

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

 ley southward ; common 684. IIoohed Waiuh.er. 



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 040. Bachman's Wauiilek. 



m. Throat yellow or oraii^» under parts with Btreaks. 

 (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 002. Blackbirnian Warbler. 



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

 abundant 003. YELLow-rnROATEo Warbler. 



003a. Sycamore Warbler. 



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

 breast; abundant 048. Parila Warbler. 



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

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



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

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



080. Canadian Warbler. 



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

 r.nd sides streaked with black ; end of tail bluck, 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 002. Blackburnian Warbler. 



d. Buck greenish, streaked with bluck : crown black, a rufous ear- 

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



050. Cape May Warbler. 



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

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



673. Prairib Warbler. 

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

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



670. Kiktland's Warbler. 



