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SYLVICOLIDiE, WARBLERS. GEN. 35. 



Fig. «. 



El.ack and Yellow 

 Warbler. 



black loral crescent obscure or wautiiig ; chestnut streaks thinner. Young: 

 above, including the crown, clear yellowish-green, perfectly uniform, or 

 back with slight dusky touches ; no distinct head-markings ; below, entirely 

 ivMte from bill to tail, unmarked, or else showing a trace of chestnut 

 streaks on the sides ; wing-hands clear yellow as in the adult ; this is a 

 diagnostic feature, shared by no other species, taken in connection with the 

 continuously white under parts ; bill light colored below. 5-5|, wing 2|^, 

 tail 2. liistern United States; abundant in woodland. Wils., i, 99, pi. 

 14. f. 5 ; NuTT., 1, 380 ; Aud., ii, 35, pi. 81 ; Bd., 279. pennsylvanica. 

 ' Black and Yellow Warbler. Magnolia Warbler. $ in spring : back 

 black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive; rump yellow; croiun 



clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, 

 behind the eyes by a white stripe ; forehead aud sides 

 of head black, continuous with that of the back, 

 enclosing the white under eyelid ; entire under parts 

 (except white under tail coverts) rich yellow, thickly 

 streaked across the breast and along the sides with 

 black, the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting off 

 the definitely bounded immaculate yellow throat 

 from the yellow of the other under parts ; wing-bars white, generally fused 

 into one patch ; tail spots small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on 

 all the feathers excepting the central pair ; bill black, feet brown. $ , in 

 spring, quite similar ; black of back reduced to spots in the grayish-olive ; 

 ash of head washed with olive; other head-markings obscure, black streaks 

 below smaller and fewer. Young, quite different ; upper parts ashj^-olive, 

 still grayer on the head ; no head-markings whatever, and streaks below 

 wanting, or confined to a few small ones along the sides ; but always 

 known by the yelloio rump in connection with extensively or completely 

 yellow under parts (except white under tail coverts) and small tail spots 

 near the middle of all the feathers except the central. Small ; 5 or less, 

 wing 2J, tail 2. Eastern United States; a dainty little siDCcies, abundant 

 in woodland. 8. magnolia Wils., iii, 63, pi. 23. 8. maculosa, Nutt., 



i, 370; Aud., ii, 65, pi. 96; Bd., 284 maculosa. 



; Cape May Warbler. $ in spring: back yellowish-olive, with dark 

 spots; crown blackish, more or less interrupted with brownish; ear-patch 

 orange-broion ; chin, throat, and posterior portion of a yellowish superciliary 

 line tinged with the same ; a black loral line ; rump and under parts rich 

 yellow, paler on belly aud crissum, the breast and sides streaked with black ; 

 wing-bars fused into a large whitish patch ; tail-blotches large, on three 

 pairs of rcctrices ; bill and feet black. 9 in spring is somewhat similar, 

 but lacks the distinctive head-markings ; the under parts are paler and less 

 streaked ; the tail-spots small or obscure ; the white on the wing less. 

 Young: an insignificant-looking bird, reseml)ling an overgrown ruby- 

 crowned kinglet, without its crest ; obscure greenish-olive above, rump olive- 

 yellow, under parts yellowish white ; breast and sides with the streaks 



