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Natural Anai/jHif^ of Speckn. 

 I. Tail-feathers conspicuously wbite-blotcbcd. Wings with white or yellow on coTcrts. Head ar breast with 

 black. All exclusively Eastern. 

 ) liluisb-ash below white ; crown and wing-bars yellow ; tliroat and stripe on side of Ijead black 



2. Olive-green ; wings and tail blaish-ash, former with wliite or yellow bars ; crown and under 



parts yellow ; lores black ]iiiiiik 



3. Olive-green, below yellow ; throat, breast, and crown-patch l.lack ; forehead yellow . bnchman, lO.J 

 n. Tail-feathers inconspicuously or not blotched with white. No decided wjng-rnarkings. X.. black anywhere. 



a. Crown without colored patch. Wings about half as long again as tail, 



4. Tail with obscure whitish spot on outer feather; under parts white or whitish; upji.'r parts 



oIive-green,brighter behind, quite ashy in front. Chiefly Eastern p, rrijrinii, 109 



h. Crown with colored patch. Wings shorter. 



.5. Crown-patch orange-brown ; tail unmarked; upper parts olive-grocn, under i.arts Kreenisli^ 



yellow, both nearly uniform. Western and incompletely Eastern cldla. I(i7, lfJ8 



6. Crown-r)atch chestnut ; tail unmarked ; upper parts olive-green, growing ashy on head ; umler 



r'arts uniformly yellow. Eastern and incoiui.letely Western rvfujapilld 106 



7. Crown-patch chestnut; tail unmarked; above olivaceous-ash, below whitish ; rump and under 



tail-coverts bright yellow ; breast yellowish. Western viriiuiiu' 10.5 



5. Crown-patch and upper tail-coverts chestnut ; outer tail-feather with dull white 



patch ; above pale cinereous, below white. Southwestern lump. V)i 



T'aaa-laiy to the f^pecws. 



Tail-featherswhite-blotched — bluish, crown yellow, throat black chrysojjlrrn. 102 



— greenish, crown and all under parts yellow jiiiin.s O.S 



— greenish, crown (partly) and throat black harlim'nu. loy 



— upper tail-coverts chestnut, crown-patch chestnut //o'/re 104 



Tail-feathers all unmarked — upper tail-eoverts — yellow; crown-patch chestnut riri/hiia!. 10,5 



— not yellow; crown-patch — chestnut. . . mjicapilla 106 



— orange-brown . celata 107, 108 



— wanting . . . 2^er'^ffrina 109 



08. H. pi'nus. (Lat. pinus, a pine-tree.) Blue-wixget> Yellow Waubler. $, uiliilt ; 

 Fore part of crown and entire under parts rich yellow ; upper parts yellow-olive, becouiiiig 

 slaty-blue on the wings and tail (system of coloration thus like that of PnjtowAaria). Wiu^s 

 with two wliite or ycUowi.sh bars; tail with several large white blotches; under tail-coverts 

 white; eyelids bright yellow; small stripe through eye black ; bill blue-black. Female and 

 young not very dissimilar ; duller and more olivaceous. Length about 4.75 ; extent 7.50 ; 

 wing 2.40-2.50; tail 2.00-2.10; tarsus 0.65; bill 0.45. Eastern United States, nortli to 

 Massachusetts and Minnesota, west to Kansas, Indian Territory, tmd Texas ; common, migra- 

 tfiry, breeding in its United States range, wintering extralimital. Nest on the ground, eggs 

 4-5, 0.67 X 0.48, white, sprinkled with reddish-brown dots. 



99. H. lawren'cil? (To Geo. N. Lawrence, of N. Y.) Lawrence's Warbler. Like H. 

 pinus ; but a large black patch <.)n the throat and breast, and Ijroad black eye-stripe, reaching 

 over auriculars, as in //. clirysoptera ; tlius pinus X cUrysopitera, :ind doubtless a hybrid 

 between the two. New Jersey ; two specimens ntjted to dtite. 



100. H. leiicobronchia'lis ? (Gr. XfuKos, hums, white, /3poy;(oc, hrogchos, becoming bronchus, 

 throat.) White-throated Warbler. JAko H. chry.iopitera; but a black bar through the 

 eye as in pinus, and lacking the black breast-patch of chrysopitera, the entire under parts being 

 white ; thus chrysoptera X pinus, and doubtless a hybrid between the two, though up to date a 

 dozen or more specimens have been described, from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, 

 imd Michigan. 



101. II. cmcinnatien'sis ? (Of Cincinnati, Ohio, where discovered.) Cincinnati Warbler. 

 Like 11. pinus in color ; bill with evident rictal bristles ; no white wing-bars or tail-blotches ; 

 no ashy-blue on wings or tail ; concealed black on crown and sides of head like the incom- 

 pleted black mask of Oporornis formosa, with which the bird othervidse closely agrees in color ; 

 thus curiously being fl". ^mtts X 0. /o»'»io.sa. Length 4.75; wing 2.50; tail 1.85; biU 0.44. 

 One specimen ktidwn, Ohio. 



