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above, rump olive yellow, under parts yellowish-wliite ; breast and sides with the 

 streaks obscure or obsolete ; little or no white on wings, which are edged with yellow- 

 ish ; tail-spots very small. Length 5-5^; wingSf; tail2J. 



Habitat, Eastern United Stites and British America to Hudson's Bay ; west to the 

 Mississippi. West Indies. 



Rare spring and fall migrant in May and September. But little can 

 be said of tbe Cape May Warbler in this State. Dr. Kirtland observed 

 it picking insects from cherry blossoms. I have taken it on two occa- 

 sions only. In May a female was secured while on the ground in a grove 

 of sycamore trees on the banks of the Scioto, and in September a young 

 male was taken while feeding in low trees on the river bank. Both 

 were solitary birds, I have seen .specimens from Sandusky. 



No North American examples of the nest and eggs are described. 

 Prof. Baird makes this species the type of a new genus, Perissoglossa, 

 the distinguishing characters of which are the slender, acute, and obso- 

 letely notched bill, with its commissure gently arched or curved from 

 the base ; the tongue lengthened, narrow, deeply bifid, and deeply lacer- 

 ated or fringed externally at the end ; the edge, along the median por- 

 tion, folded over on the upper surface, but not adherent. 



Denbkceca discolor (V.) Bd. 



JPrairie AVarbler. 

 Sylmcola discolor, Audubon, B. Am., ii, 1841, 68. — Read, Fam, Vis., iii, 1853, 423; Proe. 



Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 395. 

 Dendroioa discolor, Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep for 1860, 364 ; Reprint, 1861, 6. 

 Dendrwca discolor, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 564 ; Re-. 



print, 1875, 4. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 6 ; Revised List, Joar. Cin. Soo. 



Nat, Hist.,.i, 1879, 172; Reprint, 6. 



Sylvia discolor, Vieillot, Orn. Am. Sept., iii, 1807, 37. 

 Sylvicola discolor, Jardine, " Ed. Wilson, 1832," 

 Dendroica discolor, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 290. 

 Dendroica discolor, A. and E. Newton, Ibis, i, 1859, 144. 



Yellow-olive; back with a patch of irioTcred spots; forehead, superciliary line, two 

 wing-bars and entire under parts, rich yellow ; a V-shaped black mark on side of head, 

 its upper arm running through the eye, its lower arm connecting with a series of black 

 streaks along the whole sides of the neck and body ; tail blotches very large, occupying 

 most of the inner web of the outer feathers. The sexes are almost exactly alike, and 

 the young only differ in not being so bright, and in having the dorsal patch and head- 

 markings obscure. Size small, 4f-5 ; wing 2i ; tail 2. 



Habitat, Eastern United States north to New England; west to Kansas. West In- 

 dies. 



Rare spring and fall migrant in Southern and Middle Ohio. Summer 

 resident in Northern Ohio. Audubon gives Lake Erie as the northern 



