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Towng male in first autumn. — Essentially like the adult male, but 

 the bluish ^ray of upper parts more or less strongly tinged with olive- 

 green, especially on head and neck; sides and flanks tinged with brown- 

 ish bufi'y ; yellow of throat and breast duller, the darker jugular area 

 more or less obscured by yellowish tips or margins to the feathers; a 

 whitish supraloral mark. (Adult males in winter differ from spring 

 and summer specimens mainlj% if not wholly, in having a slight tinge 

 of olive-green to the bluish gray of head, neck, and rump and a slight 

 olivaceous tinge to sides and flanks.) 



Young female in first autmnn. — Differing from the adult female in 

 the same characters which distinguish the young male in same plumage. 



Young , first plumage. — Above plain slate-gray, slightly tinged with 

 olive-green; middle and greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 white; chin and upper throat pale yellowish; lower throat, chest, sides, 

 and flanks plain light gray (intermediate between mouse gray and gray 

 no. 6); abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white; remiges 

 and rectrices as in adults. 



More southern portions of Atlantic and eastern Gulf coast districts 

 of United States, breeding from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (vicin- 

 ity of Mobile) at least to coast of Virginia (Cape Charles, Eastville, 

 Dismal Swamp, etc.), probably to Delaware and southern New Jersey; 

 occasional farther northward (District of Columbia and vicinity; Car- 

 lisle, Pennsylvania; Sing Sing and Shelter Island, New York; Cape 

 Cod, Massachusetts);^ also occasional in more southern portions of 

 the interior (Rockwood, Tennessee, April 24; Mount Carmel, IlUnois, 

 April 19); apparently wintering mainly in Florida.^ 



\Farm\ americanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 190 (Carolina; based on 

 Parus fringUlaris Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 64, pi. 64); ed. 12, i, 1766, 

 341.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1007.— Latham, Index Dm., ii, 1790, 571. 



IMotacUla] americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, 1788, 960. 



[Sylvia] americana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 520. 



Sylvia amerirana Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 11, 1826, 83, part. — Auddbon, 

 Orn. Biog., 1, 1832, 78, part, pi. 15. 



Sylvicala americana Richaedson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Scl. for 1836 (1837), 171.— 

 AuDHBON, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., Ii, 1841, 57, part,pl. 91. 



Parula americana Bonapabte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20, part. — Baikd, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part.— Coues, Proc. Best. Soc. N. 

 H., xii, 1868, 108 (South Carolina); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871,20 

 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Check List, 1873, no. 58, part; 2d ed., 1882, 



'A considerable number of specimens from these northern localities I am quite 

 unable to distinguish from southern examples; In fact. If taken In Georgia or South 

 Carolina, they would be considered very typical, some of them extreme, examples 

 of the subspecies, as restricted. 



'' Extralimital specimens are so few In number and in such condition of plumage 

 that I am not able to make out satisfactorily the winter ranges of the three forms of 

 this species. 



