438 WOOD WARBLERS 
A. With black streaks or spots on the underparts. 
a. Back grayish, unstreaked; a necklace of black spots on the breast; 
no streaks on the sides nor white on the wings or tail; common. 
686. CANADIAN WARBLER. 
Back black, crown grayish, a black stripe through the eye; breast 
and sides streaked with black; end of tail black, a white band 
across its middle; common . . . 657. MaGnoi1a WARBLER. 
c. Back streaked with white, center of the crown and line over the 
eye orange 662. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 
. Back greenish, streaked with black; crown black, a rufous ear- 
patch, a white patch on the wings, TamD yellow; ‘rather rare. 
Care May Ware.er. 
e. Back greenish, with a patch of ee haunts second 
growths and old Pusheraes pastures; peers in some places. 
673. PRarnr—E WARBLER. 
jf. Back grayish, streaked with black; crown bluish; no conspicuous 
white marking on the wings; very rare. 
670. KirTLAND’s WARBLER. 
a 
a 
B. Underparts with rufous-brown streaks. 
a. Crown yellow, back greenish, inner border of tail-feathers yellow; 
general appearance that of a yellow bird; haunts lawns, orchards, 
and second growths; rarely seen in deep woods; abundant. 
652. YELLOW WARBLER. 
b. Crown chestnut, back brownish, outer tail-feathers tipped with 
white; haunts near the ground, frequently seen along roadsides 
and in old fields; movements leisurely, constantly wags its tail; 
common. 672. Patm WARBLER. 6720. YELLOW PaLM ‘WARBLER. 
IV. Throat white or whitish, with streaks or spots on the underparts. 
(In two species a yellow patch on the sides of the breast.) 
1. A patch of yellow on the sides of the breast. 
a. Back grayish, streaked with black; rump and a partly concealed 
crown-patch yellow; note, a loud tchip, generally uttered during 
flight; abundant . . 655. MyrRTLE WARBLER. 
b. Back brown, breast more or less spotted with black; a yellow band 
across the middle of wings and tail; movements ‘active, tail fre- 
quently spread, the yellow band showing conspicuously; abundant. 
687. Repstart (Im.). 
2. No yellow patch on the sides of the breast. 
A. With wing-bars; back streaked with black; haunts in trees. 
a. Back bright blue; very rare near the Atlantic coast. 
658. CERULEAN WARBLER. 
b. Back grayish, crown black; movements alow: abundant. 
BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 
c. Back erecnisk yellow, crown bright Sale. sides chestnut; com- 
mo 659. CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. 
B. Without wing-bars; back ‘not streaked; haunts on or near the 
ground; walkers, not hoppers. 
a. Crown pale rufous, bordered by black streaks; song, a loud teacher, 
repeated eight or nine times and increasing in wear common. 
674. OVENBIRD. 
_ 8. Crown like the back, breast with a tinge of sulphur-yellow, an 
inoonspiowous buffy ‘line over the eye; bill less than *50 in length; 
. 675. WatT5pr-THRUSH: 
G Crown like the back, breast and particularly flanks tinged with 
a conspicuous white line over the eye; bill nearly °75 in 
inet a far shyer bird ras the preceding; song loud and ring- 
IDG! as ee . 676, LoursIANA WATER-THRUSH. 
636. Mniotilta varia (Linn.). Buack anp WHITE WARBLER. (Fig. 
114.) Ad. 7—No yellow anywhere; upperparts streaked with black and 
