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NEW-YORK FAUNA — BIRDS. 
GENUS SYLVICOLA. Swainson. 
Bill short, straight, with feeble bristles at the base. Upper mandible slightly curved, and 
notched near the tip. Nostrils basal, partially concealed by the feathers. Tarsus com¬ 
pressed, longer than the middle toe, with seven scutellae. Tail emarginate. First, second 
or third quills longest, subequal. 
THE MYRTLE-BIRD. 
Sylvicola coronata. 
PLATlf LXVI. FIG. 103. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Motacilla coronata. LlNN.ffiUS, p. 333. 
Yellow-rump Warbler. Pennant, Arct. Zool. Vol. 2, p. 400, and p. 403. 
Sylvia coronata. Wilson, Orn. Vol. 2, p. 133, pL 17, fig. 4 (summer dress); Vol. 5, p. 121, pi. 45, fig. 3 (winter 
dress). 
5. id. Aububon, fol. pi. 153; Orn. Diog. Vol. 2, p. 303. 
Myrtle-bird. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 1, p. 361. 
Sylvicola coronata. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 216. Audubon, B. of Am. Vol 2, p. 23, pi. 76 (male 
and young). 
S. id., Yellow-crowned Wood-warbler. Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 55. 
Characteristics. Slate-colored, streaked with black; beneath whitish. Crown, sides of 
the breast and rump yellow. Wings bifasciate with white. Inner webs 
of three outer tail-feathers white. Winter, brownish olive; yellow of 
breast and crown obsolete. Young, without black, and the yellow 
scarcely obvious. Length, 5 inches. 
Description. Bill rather broad at base, and half an inch long. Second quill longest. 
Wings an inch shorter than the tail, which is emarginate ; the central feathers being some¬ 
what more acuminated. 
Color. Above slate, with a dark streak in the middle of each feather. Front and sides 
of the head black. Wings and tail bright brown ; the former bifasciate with white. On the 
summit of the head, a bright yellow crown. Eye-stripe black, dilated occasionally behind, 
with a whitish line over the eye, which is often obsolete. Rump yellow. Beneath, the throat 
white, immaculate; belly and vent white, striped with black: sides of the breast yellow. 
Bill and legs blackish brown. Female, light brown above, with dark reddish brown inter¬ 
rupted stripes on the back : the yellow on the crown nearly concealed by the brown obsoletely 
striped feathers. Traces of yellow on the sides of the breast. Eye-stripe dull brown. Au¬ 
tumnal male, resembles the female : the yellow on the sides of the breast not so brilliant. 
Whitish line over the eye, bordered above by a darker one. No yellow on the crown. 
Length, 5*0- 6‘0. Alar extent, 8‘5-9 - 0. 
