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bars distinct, and white blotches near the tips of the under 

 tail feathers. A southern warbler, with some of the habits of 

 a " creeper " among the tree tops. 



Length, 5^; wing, 2| (2^-2J) ; tail, 2J- ; culmen, ^. Southern United 

 States ; breeding from Virginia southward, and wintering from Florida 

 southward ; accidental in New York and Massachusetts. The Sycamore 

 Warbler (063". D. d. albilora) is a variety very much like the yellow- 

 throated, but that species has a yellow line in front of the eye and a white 

 line over it, while the sycamore has the line in front of the eye white. 



24. Black-throated Green Warbler (667. Dendrdica virens). — 

 A common, olive-green-backed, black-breasted warbler, with 

 whitish belly and yellow sides of head. Two white wing bars 

 and the under tail feathers with much white, including the base 

 of the outer web ; black streaks on the sides. Female with 

 much less of black on throat and breast, and some yellowish. 

 The young may entirely lack black on the throat. During the 

 breeding season, its home is in the tops of coniferous trees ; 

 when migrating it can be found in the growths anywhere. 



Length, 5; wing, 2} (21-21); tail, 2; culmen, §. Ea.stern North 

 America from the Plains ; breeding from Connecticut and Illinois north 

 to Hudson Bay (in the mountains south to South Carolina), and winter- 

 ing south to Central America. The Golden-cheeked Warbler (666. Den- 

 droica chrysopmia), a species found in southern Texas, has black upper 

 parts, yellow sides of the head and neck, yellowish-white belly, black 

 chin, throat, and breast, 

 and black streaking on the 

 side of the body. There 

 are two white wing bars 

 and a black stripe through 

 the eye and extending 

 some distance back of it. 

 The tail has large white 

 patches. This bird is much 

 like No. 24, and probably 

 the female varies as in that 

 species. 



25. Kirtland's War- Kirtland'. Warbler 

 bier (670. Dendrolca 



Urtlandi). — An extensively black-spotted warbler with brown- 

 ish-ashy back, bluish-gray head, and light yellow under parts. 



