mnOTILTID^ — THE AMERICAN WARBLERS. ISt 



bands: sides of head black, with a supraloral and postocular streak of wbite; 

 breast, espeeirtlly uext the yellow patches, heavily spotted or blotched with black, 

 s: Bimilur to the i. but much duller, less bluish above, the streaks on breast much 

 narrower. A ulumnal and wiitter plumage taduU and young): Upper parts brown- 

 ish, and white of lower parts obscured by a wash of the same; streaks on breast 

 indistinct or obsolete, and yellow patches much reduced in size. Young, first 

 pluitume: No yellow, except sometimes on rump; whole plumage thickly streaked 

 above and below, with dusky and grayish white. 

 ".1. D. dominica. Adult isexes alike): Above bluish gray, the back without streaks; 

 superciliary stripe and sides of neck white, the former sometimes yellow ante- 

 riorly; lores and cheeks black, this extending downward to sides of throat in a 

 triangular patch; whole throat clear yellow; rest of lower parts white, the sides 

 streaked with black. Youiig: Similar, but upper parts tinged with brownish, white 

 of lower parts soiled with the same, yellow of throat duller, and markings of head 

 less sharply deflned. 



12. D. vlgorsii. Wing-bands dull gray or grayish white, i: Above olive-green, th« wings 

 and tail grayish; beneath yellow, the sides Indistinctly streaked with olive; the 

 anal region and crissum (sometiinns belly also) white, s: Above dull olive-gray, 

 sometimes tinged with olive-green; beneath pale grayish, fading into white pos- 

 teriorly, the breast usually tinged with yellow. Young, first plumage: Nearly like 

 the adult 9. and whoUu unstreaked. 



13. D. montana. Similar to pinus. but forehead, superciliary stripe, aurieulars, and 

 anal region yellow, and breast streaked with dusky. 



14. D. discolor, i: Above olive-green, the back spotted with reddish chestnut; lower 

 parts rich gamboge-yellow, the sides broadly streaked with black; wings with only 

 one distinct band, this a pale yellow one across tips of middle coverts, s: Similar 

 but somewhat duller. 



i. Wing without any dis'inct hands or other markings. 



15. D. palmarum. Above olive-brown, beneath yellowish. Adult with the crown 

 chestnut. 



o. palmarum. Yellow of lower parts confined chiefly to throat and crissum, 

 the belly whitish, or only slightly tinged with yellow; jugulum narrowly 

 streaked with dusky; back dull olive-brown. 



6. hypochrysea. Lower parts wholly yellow; sides of breast broadly streaked 

 with reddish chestnut; back greenish olive. 



16. D. kirtlandi. Adult {sexes alike): Above bluish gray, the crown streaked, and the 

 back spotted with black; lower parts pale sulphur- yellow, sides tinged with eray- 

 ish and streaked with black, the jugulum sometimes finely and sparsely dotted 

 with the same; side of head blackish, the eyelids white. 



Dendroica sestiva (Gmel.) 



YELLOW WARBLER. 



Popular synonyms.— Summer Yellow-bird; Wild Canary; Yellow-poll Warbler. 

 Moiacilla cestiva Gmel. S. N. i, 1788. 996. 

 Sylvia aistira Lath.— AuD. Orn. Biog. i. 18:!1. 476. pi. 95.— Nutt. Man. i, 1832, 370. 

 Syleicola cestiva 8w. & Rich. F. B. A. ii. I.s;n, 211.— AuD. Synop. 1839. 58; B. Am. ii, 1841. 



5U. pi. 38. -Nutt. Man. id ed. i, 1840. 417 

 Dendroica (Estiva Baikd. B. N. Am. ISix, iS;;; Cat. N. Am. B. 18!i7. No. 203; Review, 1865, 

 195.-ConKS. Key. 1872. 97: Check List. 1873. No. 79; 2d ed. 188-2. No. Ill; B. N. W. 1874. 

 54. 232; B. Col. Val. 1878, 252.— B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. i, 1874, 222, pi. 14. fle. 1 — 

 RiDow. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881. No. 93. 



