180 ZOOLOGY. 



DENDROrCA NIGRESCENS, Baird. 



Black-tliroatecl Gray Warbler. 



Sylvia nu/rescens, Townsend, J. A. N. Sc.Ph. VII, ii, 1837, 191.— Ie. NsiTative, 1839, :!41.— Aud. Orn. Bic.g. V, 



1839,57; pi. 39.5. 

 Vermivora nigrescens, Bonap. List, 1838. — Ndttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 471. 



Sylvicola nigrescens, Aud. Syn. 1839, 60.— Is. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 62; pi. 94.— Bonah. Consp. 1850, 308. 

 Rhimanphus mgrescem, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 20. 

 Dendroica nigrescens, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 270. 

 Sp. Ch. — Head all round, fore part of the breast, and streaks on the side of the body, black ; rest of under parts, a stripe on 

 the side of the head, beginning acutely just above the middle of the eye, aud another parallel to it, beginning at the base of the 

 under jaw (the stripes of opposite sides confluent on the chin) and running further back, white. A yellow spot in front of the 

 eye. Rest of upper parts bluish gray. The interscapular region and upper tail coverts streaked with black. "Wing coverts 

 black, with two narrow white bands; quills and tail feathers brown, the two outer of the latter white, with the shafts and a 

 terminal streak brown; the third brown, with a terminal narrow white streak. Bill black; feet brown; iris brown. Length, 

 5.25 to 6.38; extent, 7.75; wing, 2.30; tail, 2.10. 

 ffab. — Pacific coast of United States ; Fort Thorn, New Mexico. 



Moderately abundant near Fort Steilacoom. Generally found on oak trees. Habits much 

 like those of the D. Audiihonii. It general]}' arrives from the south about the first week in 

 April.— S. 



I only saw one pair of tlio dusky warbler at Pugct Sound, which seemed to have a nest, 

 though I sought for it in vain. Townsend found it "abundant in the forests of the Columbia." — 

 (Nutt.) Its song is faint and unvaried. — C. 



DENDROICA CORONATA, Gray. 



YelluYV-ruinped Warbler. 



Motacilla coronata, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 333. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 974, (male.) 



Sylvia coronata, Latham, Index. Orn. II, 1790,538. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 24; pi. Ixxviii, Ixxix. — 

 Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 138; pi. xvii, f. 4, (summer)— II, 356; pi. xlv, f. 3, (winter.) — 

 NuTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 361.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 303; pi. cliii. 

 SylvicoU coronata, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 216.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 307.— Aud. 



Synop. 1839, 76.— In. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 23; pi. Ixxvi. 

 Dendroica coronata, G. K. Gray, Genera, 2d ed. Suppl. 1842, 8. — Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 272. 

 Sp. Ch. — Above bluish ash, streaked with black. Under parts white. The fore part of breast and the sides black, the 

 feathers mostly edged with white. Crown, rump, and sides of breast yellow. Cheeks and lores black. The eyelids and n 

 superciliary stripe, two bands on the wing and spots on the outer three tail feathers, white. Female of duller plumage and 

 browner above. Length, 5.65; extent, 9.25; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.50; iris brown; bill and feet black. 

 Ilab. — Eastern North America to the Missouri plains. Stragglers seen on Puget Sound. 



On the 1st of May, 1856, I obtained a bird, -which, according to the description in Audubon's 

 synopsis, ajipeared to belong to the present species, the "white throat" being present. In 

 all other respects this bird resembled the ^S*. Audubonii. It was shot in the same situation 

 frequented by birds of the latter species, and its habits appeared identical. — S. 



I saw, on Whidby's island, in April, two of the yellow-crowned warbler, similar to the last, 

 and noticing the distinguishing white color of the chin, besides other less prominent differences, 

 I shot one. It seemed to agree exactly with the eastern bird, and is a curious but not the 

 only instance of two so closely allied species being found in tlic same region. As these are 

 • the only ones I met with, it must be rare in the Territory. My specimen was unfortunately 

 lost.— C. 



