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AMElilCAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Identification Chart No- 14, 



Ora.nge Wa.rblers^ 



No. 637. Prothonotary Warbler {Proton- 



otaria dtrea.) 



Southeastern United States; west to the Mississippi; 

 north to the Middle States and casually further. 

 Length 5.5 inches. Head, bright golden yellow, 

 becoming paler on the belly and changing to olive on 

 the back. Rump, wings and tail blue gray, the latter 

 ha\ing a large spot of white on the inner web of all 

 the outer feathers 1 he female is similar but 

 somewhat paler. 



No. 651. Olive Warbler, (JDe7idroica oliv- 



acea.') 



Highlands of Guatemala and Mexico, north to 

 southern New Mexico and Arizona. Length 5 in. 

 Head and neck an orange brown color; back, grayish; 

 under parts whitish. Wings and tail blackish, the 

 former with two broad bands sometimes nearly 

 merging into one and the latter with the outer 

 feather white. A black patch around the eye, and 

 the edges of the secondaries are greenish yellow. 

 Female: Top of head and hind neck greenish; ear 

 patch, dusky; sides of neck, throat and chest yellow- 

 ish; rest of plum?ge similar to the male but wing 

 bands narrower, and spot at base of primaries 

 smaller. 



No. 662. Blackburnian Warbler, (^DendroicOr 



blackburniae) . 



Eastern U. S. and southern Canada; west to the 

 Great Plains. Length 4.75 in. Crown patch, throat, 

 superciliary line and side of neck, bright orange. 

 Large white patch on wing. Female. — Above gray- 

 ish olive streaked with black. Bright orange parts 

 of the male are a pale yellow. Other markings simi- 

 lar but dull. 



No. 687 Am. Redstart, (Setophaga ruticilla.) 



Found throughout temperate North America ex- 

 cept the Pacific Coast within the U. S. Length 5 in. 

 Glossy black; white belly; base of all outer tail 

 feathers, band on wing and large spot on side of 

 breast, orange red. Female: — Marked precisely the 

 same with the black replaced by grayish brown, the 

 orange by yellow and the white on under parts in- 

 cludes the throat and chin. 



No. 748. Golden-crowned Kinglet, (^Regidus 



satrapa.) 



North America at large, breeding from northern 

 U. S. northwards. Length 4 in. Superciliary line 

 and forehead, white; crown black enclosing a flame 

 colored patch within a yellow one. Female similar 

 except that the whole crown patch is yellow. 



