MNIOTILTIDA, — CLXXII. 299 
bb, Throat yellow or white; ear coverts olive or ashy above, pale below. 
963. H. pinus: (L.). Buuz-winceD YELLOW WARBLER. 
Olive green; crown and all under parts bright yellow; wing 
bars whitish ; loral strip black; @ similar. L. 44. W. 2}. 
T, 2, E.U.S., N.to N.Y; a handsome bird, like a miniature 
Protonotaria. (Lat., pine.) 
aa. Tail feathers without white; no wing bars. 
964, H. peregrina (Wilson). TENNESSEE WARBLER. Olive 
green; head more or less ashy and without crown patch; white or 
slightly yellowish below. L. 44. W. 2%. T.1%. N. Am, rare 
E. of Ohio; closely resembles the young of the two following, but 
its wings are nearly half longer than the short tail; celata has no 
ashy on head, and ruficapilla is yellower below. 
965. H. celata (Say). ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Olive 
green, never ashy on head; crown patch orange brown, more or 
less concealed ; greenish yellow below; 9 duller, sometimes without 
crown patch, known from the next by the more olive color of the 
head, which is similar to the back ; belly less yellow. L. 43. W. 
21. T.2. N.Am.; rare E. (Lat., concealed.) 
966. H. rubricapilla (Wilson). NasHvitte WARBLER. Olive 
green, ashy on head and neck, the color contrasting with back; 
crown patch bright chestnut more or less concealed ; bright yellow 
below ; lores and orbital ring pale; 9 duller, crown patch obscure. 
L.43. W. 2}. T.2. E.N. Am., common, (Lat., ruber, red; 
capillus, hair.) 
512. PARULA Bonaparte. (Called Compsothlypis by the A.O. U. 
because close to the earlier name, Parulus.) 
967, P. americana (L.). Brus YELLOw-BAcKED WARBLER. 
Clear ashy blue; back with a large golden green patch; yellow be- 
low, belly white; a brown band across breast; whité wing bars; 
tail feathers with white; 9 obscurely marked. L. 43. W.2}. T.2. 
E. N. Am., not rare; very elegant; var. usnee Brewster, N. 
513. DENDROICA Gray. (dévdpor, tree ; oixéw, I inhabit.) 
A large genus comprising about 30 species of brightly colored 
little birds, very abundant in the United States during the migra- 
1 H. leucobronchialis (Brewster). Ashy gray ; throat and lower parts white; wing 
pands yellow or white; variable. E. U.S., not common; now considered as probably 
a white phase of H. pinus, as H. lawrencei is a yellow phase of chrysoptera. It is 
further thought that the two species in both yellow and white condition hybridize. 
(Aeuxés, white ; Bpdyxos, throat.) 
A. cincinnatiensis Langdon. Olive green, lores and part of ear coverts black ; 
spot below eye and entire lower parts yellow. Cincinnati; now regarded, as a hybrid 
of H. pinus and Geothlypis formosus. (See Ridgway, N. Am. Birds, p. 486.) 
