BIRDS — SYLVICOHDAE — ^DENDEOICA VIEENS. 



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Comparative measurements of species. 



DENDEOIOA VIEENS, B a i r d . 



Black-throated Green Warbler. 



Motacilla virens, Gmelin, Syst. Nat, I, 1788, 935, 



Sylvia vinns, Latham, Ind, Orn. II, 1790, 537. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II. 1807, 33 ; pi. xciii, — Wilson, Am. 



Orn. II, 1810, 127 ; pi. xxvii, f, 3.— Bonap, Obs. Wila. 1826, No. 146.— Ncttall, Man. I, 1832, 



376 —Add. Orn. Biog-. IV, 1838, 70 ; pi. 399. 

 Sylvicola virens, "Swainsos," Jakd. ed. Wila. 1832,— Bonap List, 1838. — AtrD. Syn. 1839, 55.— In, Birds Amer. 



II, 1841, 42 ; pi 84 — Reishardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73, 81. 

 Rhimanphus virens, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 19.— In. Journ. Orn, III, 1855, 474. 



Sp. Ch, — Male — Upper parts, exclusive of wing and tail, clear yellow olive green, the featliers of the back with hidden 

 streaks of black. Forehead and sides of head and neck, including a superciliary stripe, bright yellow. A dusky olive line 

 from the bill through the eye, and another below it. Chin, throat, and forj part of breast, extending some distance along on 



