54 AUDUBON'S WARBLER. 



Bill and feet black. Iris brown. The general colour of the plu- 

 mage above is ash-grey, streaked with black ; the crown, rump, upper 

 part of the throat and a patch on the sides, rich yellow ; first row of 

 small coverts largely tipped, and secondary coverts broadly margined 

 with white, which thus forms a conspicuous patch on the wing. Quills 

 and tail brownish-black, narrowly margined with brownish-grey ; outer 

 margin of the two outer tail-feathers on each side white, and a patch 

 of the same colour on the inner webs of the outer three towards the 

 end. There is a small white spot on each of the eyelids ; the loral 

 space and cheek are black ; the lower part of the neck anteriorly, the 

 fore part of the breast, and the sides, are variegated with black and 

 white, the latter colour margining the feathers, the rest of the lower 

 parts white. 



Length to end of tail 5f inches ; bill along the ridge i| ; wing from 

 flexure 3^^ ; tail 2^^^ ; tarsus ^^ ; hind toe ^5, its claw ||, middle toe 

 ^, its claw II . 



Adult Female. Plate CCCXCV. Fig. 2. 



The female is rather less, and wants the yellow spot on the crown, 

 although the feathers there are tinged with that colour at the base. 

 The upper parts are light brownish-grey, streaked with dusky ; the 

 lower parts whitish, tinged with brovra, and streaked with dusky ; the 

 throat and rump are yellow, but of a paler tint than in the male, and there 

 are but slight indications of the yellow patch on the sides. The wings 

 and tail, are as in the male ; but the two rows of coverts have much 

 less white on their outer edges, and the white patches on the tail- 

 feathers are of less extent. 



Length to end of tail 5^ inches ; bill along the ridge ^ ; wing from 

 flexure 2^; tail2i. 



In size, form, and proportions of parts Salvia Auduboni, and S. coro- 

 nata are, it may be said precisely similar, the dififerences that can be 

 pointed out being extremely insignificant. Thus the bill is slightly 

 longer, and the tarsus slightly shorter in S. Auduboni. The colovu-s of 

 the two species are also exactly alike, the only difference in this re- 

 spect being that the throat of this new species is yellow, while that of 

 the other is white. 



