300 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS -^PASSERES—OSCINES. 



black of jugulnm not reaching anteriody to the hill, and the surrounding yellow spreading on 

 the breast back of the black. Young birds not so easily discriminated ; but there are usually 

 traces at least of the black streaks on the upper parts; there is no concealed yellow on the 

 crown ; the yellow of the under parts, quite as bright as in the adult, extends far along the 

 breast, behind that part where it veUs the black. Rocky Mts. to the Paeiiic, Alaska to Guat- 

 emala ; common. A straggler taken at Philadelphia. 



115. D. chrysopari'a. (Gr. ;(pi)(rdi, ehrusos, golden, and napcid, pareio; cheek.) Golden-cheek- 

 ed Warbler. Prevailing color of upper parts black, usually mixed with olive-green ; sides 

 of head yellow, with narrow black stripe through eye ; below, with the wings and tail, as in 

 virens; size of this species, and changes of plumage doubtless parallel ; very closely related. 

 (J , in full dress : Above, jet-black from bill to tail, anteriorly narrowing to a point on the fore- 

 head, with scarcely a trace of olivaceous toward and on the rump. Entire side of head and 

 neck golden- yellow, reaching the bill, elsewhere enclosed in black, and enclosing a long black 

 stripe through eye to side of nape, nearly cutting off a superciliary stripe from the general yel- 

 low area, which, however, is continuous on lore and side of nape. Chin, throat, and breast 

 jet black, this color extending backward along the sides as heavy streaking ; narrowing ante- 

 riorly where sharply defined against the yellow ; other under parts, including lining of wings, 

 white, squarely defined against the black of breast (the whole under parts thus as in virens). 

 Wings blackish, with two broad white cross-bars, and whitish edging of the quills, especially 

 the inner secondaries. Tail blackish, the outermost feather white with only a black shaft-line 

 clubbed at end ; the next three pairs with decreasing white areas. Bill and feet black. Texas 

 and southward ; rare, at least in collections. Nest in upright fork, preferably of a cedar, large 

 for the bird, compactly felted of ^ark strips, fine grasses, rootlets, and slender vegetable fibres 

 and cobwebs, lined copiously with hair and feathers; eggs 0.75 X 0.55, white, dotted with 

 reddish-brovni and lavender, and blotched with darker brown, laid in May. 



116. D. nigres'cens. (Lat. nigrescens, growing black. Fig. 164.) Black-throated Gray War- 

 bler. ^, adult : Above, bluish-ash, the interscapular region, and usually also the upper-tail 



coverts, streaked with black. Below, from the breast, pure white, the 

 sides streaked with black. Entire head, with chin and throat, black ; 

 a sharply-defined yellow spot before the eye, a broad white stripe 

 behind the eye, and a long white maxiQary stripe widening behind 

 from the comer of the biU to the side of the neck. Wings fuscous, 

 with much whitish edging, and crossed with two broad white bars 

 on the ends of the greater and median coverts. Tail like the wings, 

 F if!4 _Bl k throated *^® three lateral feathers mostly white, except on the outer webs. 

 Gray Warbler, nat. size. (Ad the fourth with a white blotch. Bill and feet black. Size of D. 

 nat. del. E. 0.) tovmsendi. 9 ■ Like the male, but the black of the crown mixed 



with the ashy of the back, and that of the throat veiled vrith white tips of the feathers. Young : 

 Like the 9 , but the crown almost entirely like the back, and the black of the throat still more 

 hidden. Back not streaked. Less white on the taU. Bill not entirely black. Rocky Mts. to 

 the Pacific, U. S. and southward, common in woodland. Quite unlike any other species ; one 

 of the five Dendrceas which are normally confined to the West. 



117. D. coerules'cens. (Lat. eocrukscem, growing blue; coeruleus, blue.) Black-throated 

 Blue Warbler. $ , in spring : Above, uniform slaty-blue, the perfect continuity of which is 

 only interrupted in very high plumages, by a few black dorsal streaks ; below, pure white ; 

 the sides of the head to above the eyes, the chin, throat, and whole sides of the body continu- 

 ously jet black ; wing-bars woMti/ng (the coverts being black, edged with blue), but a large 

 white spot at base of primaries : quill-feathers blackish, outwardly edged with bluish, the inner 

 ones mostly white on their inner webs ; tail with the ordinary white blotches, the central feath- 

 ers edged with bluish; biU black; feet dark. Young (J : Similar, but the blue glossed with 



