DENDROICA. 493 
throat, chest, and sides streaked with black; back olive-greenish; a 
white patch on wings, covering middle and greater coverts. (In autumn, 
markings much obscured by grayish and olive suffusion.) Adult female: 
Grayish olive above, brighter on rump, the wing-coverts merely edged 
with whitish ; beneath dull yellowish white (sometimes deeper yellow- 
ish), streaked on chest, etc, with dusky; white tail-spots much re- 
stricted. Length 4.70-5.65, wing 2.85, tail 2.15. Nest a very neat cup- 
shaped structure, about 2.25 deep and 3.00 across outside, with cavity 
1.25 deep by 1.75 wide, composed of dried spruce twigs, grasses, spiders’ 
webs, etc.; placed in evergreen trees or bushes, usually not far from 
ground. Zggs 3-4, .70 x .52, dull white, buffy white, or grayish white, 
speckled or spotted round larger end with dark brown or reddish brown 
and lilac-gray, occasionally mixed with a few smaller markings of black- 
ish. Hab. Eastern North America, north to Hudson’s Bay, Lake Win- 
nipeg, etc., breeding from northern New England northward (also in 
mountains of Jamaica); winters in Greater Antilles. 
650. D. tigrina (GmEL.). Cape May Warbler. 
6’. Inner webs of tail-feathers without white spots. Adult male: Whole top 
of head and broad streak on side of head black ; back and lesser wing- 
coverts dusky olive spotted or broadly streaked with black; middle 
wing-coverts tipped with yellow, greater coverts with white; rump, 
upper tail-coverts, and tail yellowish olive-green ; rest of plumage gam- 
boge-yellow, tinged with dusky olive on sides, the sides of chest, ete., 
streaked with black; length 4.75, culmen .45, tarsus .75. Hab. Ken- 
tucky (Henderson; known only from Audubon’s plate and descrip- 
TOD) sscoacdcbbvasescuanacids —. D. carbonata (Avp.). Carbonated Warbler. 
a’. Bill not very acute nor distinctly decurved at tip; tongue gradually tapering to 
the slightly cleft and fringed tip. 
b. A white spot at base of quills, in combination with other white markings 
on wings; wing half as long again as tail. (Subgenus Peucedramus 
CovEs.) 
Adult male: Head, neck, and chest orange-rufous, or deep ochraceous, 
sometimes tinged with olive; lores and ear-coverts black, forming 
a conspicuous patch on side of head ; back, scapulars, and rump plain 
olive or dull olive-gray; middle and greater wing-coverts broadly 
tipped with white; belly dull white. Adult female (and male in first 
year): Head, neck, and chest dull buffy or yellowish, the top of the 
head and hind-neck tinged with olive-green, and black patch on 
side of head in male replaced by a much less distinct one of dusky 
(usually confined to ear-coverts); otherwise similar to male, but 
duller. Length 4.60-5.40, wing averaging about 3.00, tail about 
1 This character has not been tested in all the species referred to this group, and may not prove diagnostic 
in the case of some of those not examined ; the indications, however, are strongly in favor of the probability that 
essentially the same style of tongue will be found in them all. 
