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brown, sometimes approaching dull white; inner webs of two outer- 

 most rectrices with a terminal white spot, this about 18-22 long on the 

 lateral rectrix; malar region, chin, throat, and rest of under parts 

 pale lemon, canarj^, or primrose yellow, fading into white on under 

 tail-coverts; sides and flanks grayish, streaked with dusky, the pro- 

 nounced gray area on each side of breast separated from the yellow of 

 the median portion by a series of broad black streaks; chest usually 

 with a few small flecks of dusky, sometimes immaculate yellow; maxilla 

 blackish with pale brownish tomia; mandible horn brownish, darker 

 terminally, paler basally; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn brown- 

 ish; length (skins), 125-150 (134.6); wing, 70-72 (71.4); tail, 57-65 

 (58.8); exposed culmen, 11-13 (11.9); tarsus, 21.5-23 (22.3); middle 

 toe, 12-13 (12.6).^ 



Adult female in spring. — Similar to the adult male, but duller in 

 color; the bluish slate-gray of pileum, hindneck, and rump replaced 

 with brownish gray; black streaks of back and scapulars rather nar- 

 rower; yellow of under parts averaging slightly paler, and chest more 

 frequently as well as more extensively speckled or flecked with dusky; 

 length (skins) 126-138 (132.1); wing, 64-71 (66.7); tail, 53-58 (56:4); 

 exposed culmen, 11-13 (11.9); tarsus, 21-22 (21.3); middle toe, 12-13 

 (12.3).' 



Eastern United States and more southern British Provinces, chiefly 

 west of the Alleghenies; very irregularly distributed and breeding 

 range unknown; has been taken in the following States: Ohio (Cleve- 

 land; Rockport; Hamilton County); Indiana (Wabash); Illinois (Win- 

 nebago and Cook counties); Missouri (St. Louis County); Minnesota 

 (Minneapolis); Wisconsin (Racine); Michigan (Ann Arbor; Straits of 

 Mackinac); Virginia (Fort Myer); South Carolina (Chester); also iu 

 Ontario (Toronto). Winters in the Bahamas (Watlings, Green Cay, 

 Berry, Abaco, Eleuthera, New Providence, Andros, North Caicos, East 

 Caicos, and Grand Caicos islands). 



Sylvicola kirtlandii Baied, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1852, 217, pi. 6 (Cleve- 

 land, Ohio; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Zuchold, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 

 355.— Oassin, Illustr. Birds Oal., Tex., etc., 1855, 278, pi. 47. 



Bendroica kirtlandii Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 286; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 205; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 206 (at sea, bet. Abaco, Baha- 

 mas, and Cuba; 2 additional specs, from Cleveland, Ohio). — Whbaton, Ohio 

 Agric. Rep. for 1860 (1861), 374 (Cleveland, Ohio; Racine, Wisconsin).— 

 Stone, Auk, xv, 1898, 331 (no valid record for Pennsylvania). 



Dendroica Idrtlandi Baied, Bebwbr, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 272, pi. 14, fig. 5. — American Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 670.— Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 337 (Watlings I., Bahamas, Mar. 4 to9), 

 338 (Green Cay, Bahamas, Apr. 12).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 38; viii, 1891, 

 295 (Berry Islands, Bahamas), 297 (Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Jan. or Feb.), 

 298 (Abaco I., Bahamas, Mar.); Birds W. I., 1889, 52; Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 118, 155 (Abaco, Berry Islands, Eleuthera, New Providence, Andros, Wat- 



' Five specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



