82 CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



upper parts a rich yellow-olive ; wings dusky brown, edged with olive ; 

 throat dirty white or pale ash ; upper part of the breast dull greenish- 

 yellow ; rest of the lower parts a pure rich yellow ; legs long, slender, 

 and of a pale flesh-colour ; round the eye, a narrow ring of yellowish- 

 white ; upper mandible pale brown, lower whitish ; eye dark hazel. 



" Since writing the above, I have shot two specimens of a bird, 

 which in every particular agrees with the above, except in having the 

 throat of a dull buff-colour, instead of pale ash. Both of these were 

 females ; and I have little doubt but they were of the same species with 

 the present, as their peculiar activity seemed exactly similar to the males 

 above described." 



The males described by Wilson, however, I have reason to think 

 were young birds in their second plumage. Those which I have de- 

 scribed in my second volume, at p. 227, were also young birds in that 

 stage, a male and a female. An adult male in my possession may be 

 described as follows : — 



Connecticut Warbler, Sylvia agilis, Wils. Amer. Omith. vol. v. p. 64, pi. 39, 

 fig. 4. 



Adult Male. 



Bill short, straight, conico-subulate, compressed toward the end, 

 acute ; upper mandible with the dorsal line declinate, convex toward 

 the end, the ridge narrow, the sides convex, the edges direct and over- 

 lapping, with a slight notch, the tip narrow ; lower mandible with the 

 angle of moderate length and narrow, the dorsal line ascending and 

 slightly convex, the sides rounded, the edges inflected, the tip acute ; 

 the gape-line slightly arched. Nostrils basal, lateral, oblong, opercu- 

 late, exposed. 



Head of moderate size, ovato-oblong ; neck short ; body rather 

 slender. Feet rather long ; tarsus slender, of the same length as the 

 middle toe, much compressed, covered before with seven scutella, be- 

 hind with two longitudinal plates meeting so as to form a thin edge ; 

 the lateral toes nearly equal, the third much longer, and united at the 

 base to the fourth, hind toe stronger and rather large ; claws slightly 

 arched, extremely compressed, laterally grooved, acute. 



Plumage soft and blended, with little gloss ; wings long, very • 

 slightly concave ; the second and third (but not the fourth) primaries 



