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EET AND DESCRIPTION 



Tennessee "Warbler 



9. Orange-crowned "Warbler (646. HelmintMphila celMa). — 

 A rare warbler, with the whole upper parts nearly uniform 

 olive-green except the more or less concealed orange-brown 

 crown patch. The lower parts greenish-yellow, with slight dusky 

 streaks on the breast. Young lack the crown patch, and are in 

 all respects duller birds, but with a white ring around the eye. 



Length, 5 ; wing, 21 (2|— 2^) ; tail, 2 ; culmen, |. Eastern North 

 America from Maclienzie River south through the Rocky Mountains ; 



wintering in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States 

 and Mexico. Rare north 

 o£ Virginia in the Eastern 

 States. 



10. Tennessee War- 

 bler (647. HelminM- 

 phila peregrlna). — A 

 rare warbler, with 

 the lower parts white, 

 more or less tinged 

 with yellow, and the upper parts bright-olive-green, chang- 

 ing abruptly to bluish-gray on the head. No white wing 

 bars, but the inner web of the under tail feathers generally 

 white at tip. Female has the crown tinged with greenish and the 

 under parts more dis- / j 



tinctly yellowish. The 

 breast of this species 

 is pale greenish yellow 

 with no streaks, and the 

 under tail coverts white. 



Length, 4| ; wing, 2| ; 

 tail, 1| ; culmen, |. East- 

 ern North America ; breed- 

 ing from northern New 

 York to Hudson Bay, and 

 wintering from Mexico to 

 northern South America. 



11. Parula Warbler (648. Compsdthlypis americiXna). — A 

 greenish-yellow-backed, yellow-breasted, grayish-blue warbler, 



Farnla Warbler 



