DENDROICA. 513 
tinged with brownish, es. 
pecially on sides. Young: 
Above plain ash-gray; be- 
neath plain brownish gray, 
the belly and lower tail- 
coverts white, Length 4.70 
-5.25, wing 2.45-2.70, tail 
2.10-2.25. Nest in conifer- 
ous trees. Hggs .61 x 51, 
dull white, or grayish white, 
spotted or blotched with 
hair-brown, umber, and lilac- 
gray. Hab. Western United 
States, chiefly near Pacific 
coast, east during migra- 
tions to Rocky Mountains; 
south, in winter, to high- 
lands of Guatemala. 
669. D. occidentalis 
(Towns.). Hermit 
Warbler. 
g. Wing-bands distinct only in adult male, and dull 
white or grayish white; in females and young 
less distinct, and more decidedly grayish. 
Adult male: Above plain bright olive-green, 1n- 
cluding sides of head and neck; wings and 
tail dusky grayish, with paler grayish edg- 
ings, the former with two broad dull white or 
grayish white bands, the latter with much 
white on terminal portion of inner webs of 
two outer feathers; streak over lores, eye- 
lids, chin, throat, chest, and breast (sometimes 
belly and flanks also), gamboge-yellow, the 
sides of breast more or less distinctly streaked 
with olive-green; lower tail-coverts (usually 
lower belly and hinder flanks also) dull white. 
Adult female: Above dull olive-gray or gray- 
ish olive, the wings and tail much as in male, 
but bands on former narrower and more de- 
cidedly grayish ; beneath soiled grayish white, 
the breast usually more or less tinged with 
yellow, or with anterior half of lower surface 
pale yellow, more or less streaked with olive. 
Male in winter with yellow richer and upper 
parts browner than in summer. female in 
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