BIRDS — SYLVICOLIDAE — DENDROICA PINUS. 



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beliind and under tail coverts are pure white. The quills are onlj gradually paler towards the 

 inner edge^ not rather ahruptly white. 



List of specimens. 



DENDROICA PINUS, Baird. 



Pine Creeping Warbler. 



Sylvia finua, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 25 ; pi. xix, f. 4. (Not Certhia pinits, L ; Motacilla pinus, Gm. ; Sylvia 

 pinus, Lath.)— BoNAP. Obs. Wila. 1826, No. 149.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 387.— Atjd. Orn. Biog. 

 11,1834,232; pi. 111. 



Thryothorus pinus, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIV, i, 194. 



Syhicola pinus, J AHT>. ed. Wilson, 1832.— Rich. List, 1837.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Aun. Syn. 1839, 54.— Ib. Birds 

 Amer. II, 1841, 37 ; pi. 82. 



Rhimamphus pinus, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 311. 



Sylvia vigorsii, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 153 ; pi. 30. (Young.) 



Vireo vigorsii, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 318. 



Sp. Ch. — Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive green, the feathers of the crown with rather darker shafts. Under 

 parts generally, except the middle of the belly behind, and under tail coverts, (which are white,) bright gamboge yellow, with 

 obsolete streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body. Sides of head and neck o^ive green like the back, with a broad 

 superciliary stripe ; tlie eyelids and a spot beneath the eye very obscurely yellow ; wings and tail brown ; the feathers edged 

 with dirty white, and two bands of the same across the coverts. Inner web of the first tail feather with nearly the terminal 

 half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, dull inconspicuous white. Length, 5.50 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2.40. (1356.) 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri. 



The markings of this species are not very distinct or well defined ; less so, perhaps, than any of 

 our warblers, except possibly I), palmarum. The amount of white on the tail varies somewhat, 

 occasionally the entire outer web of the exterior feather and a larger portion of the inner being 

 of this color. The female is similar to the male, but of duller plumage. In autumn the colors 

 are as in spring, the yellow rather lighter and brighter ; the olive above glossed with reddish 

 brown. The yellow of the under parts is sometimes much obscured by pale margins to the 

 feathers. The young are brown above, whitish beneath, tinged with brown before. 



This species appears to differ from the Sylvia montana, Wilson, chiefly in the absence of a 

 yellow frontlet, in having a greener back, and less distinct streaks beneath ; as also in the white 

 anal region. 



