SYLVICOLIDiE, WAEBLEES. GEN. 35. 103 



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

 yellowish; tail-spots very small. 5-5^, wing 2i|, tail 2^. Eastern North 

 America to Hudson's Bay; West Indies (where it also breeds). A species 

 not very common with us, remarliable for the very acute and somewhat 

 decurved bill, and the anatomical peculiarities of the tongue. S. maritiina 

 WiLS. vi, 99, pi. 54, f. 3; Nutt., i, 371; Aud., 44, pi. 85; D. ligrina 



I Bd., 280; Peri.wo^'/os.sa ^ijrrma Bd., Rev. 181 tigeina. . 



V, P^ Prairie Warbler. Yellow-olive: back with a patch of brick-red 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 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. Small ; 4f-5 ; wing 2J ; tail 2. 

 Eastern United States, to Massachusetts; an abundant little bird of the 

 Middle and Southern States, in sparse low woodland, cedar thickets and old 

 fields grown up to scrub-pines ; remarkable for its quaint and curious song ; 

 an expert flycatcher, constantly darting into the air in pursuit of winged 

 insects, like the redstart and the species of Myiodiodes. S. tainula AYils., 

 iii, 87, pi. 25, f. 4. 8. discolor Nutt., i, 394 ("294" by error of paging) ; 



Aud., ii, 68, pi. 97; Bd., 290 discolok. 



aT Grace's Warbler. $ in spring : bluish-ash, back with black streaks, 

 crown with still more black streaks, so crowded anteriorly and on the sides 

 as to become continuous ; chin, throat and breast rich yelloiu, ending abruptly 

 against the white of the other under jDarts ; sides of neck and body with 

 numerous black streaks ; a broad yellow superciliary line, changing to 

 white behind the eye ; no white patch below auriculars ; loicer eydid yeJloiv ; 

 a black line from bill to eye, with which the streaks of the side of the neck 

 connect ; two white wing-bars, the anterior one much the stronger ; tail 

 blotches large, the outer one occupying nearly all the feather; bill aud feet 

 black. 9 not particularly different. Young: dull Ijrownish (like 3'oung 

 coronata) with few or no black streaks on back, crown or along sides ; throat, 

 eyelid and superciliary line rich yellow, as in the adult ; other under parts 

 soiled whitish. 5-5:^, wing 2f , tail 2J, bill under J. New Mexico, Arizona 

 and southward; abundant, and breeding, at Fort Whipple (Coues). An 

 interesting lately discovered species, closely resembling the next. Coues, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada., 1866, p. 67. Baied, Eev. 210; Coopee, 



p. — (appendix) geaci.e. 



/■ ; Yelloiv-throated Warbler. Much like the last species, with which its 

 '' changes of plumage are entirely correspondent ; ?io yellow in the black 

 under the eye; a white patch separating the black of the cheeks from the 

 bluish ash of the neck ; superciliary line usually yellow from bill to eye, 

 thence white to nape, sometimes entirely white; bill very long (at least ^), 

 extremely compressed, almost a little decurved. South Atlantic and Gulf 



