Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Orange 



837. Ppolhonotary WarUier {Protonotaria citrea). 

 L. 5.5. Tail-feaihers with large white areas. Ad. (j. 

 vVhole head and underparts orange- yellow; back 

 greenibh yellow; rump gray. Ad. £. Crown green- 

 ish like back; yellow paler; belly whitish; less white in 

 tail. Notes. Call, a sharp, metallic chinh; song, a 

 "high pitched, penetrating and startling" ^^peet, h-wed, 

 tsweet, tsweet, tsweet, tsweet." (JoneS.) 



Ranee.— Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States north 

 to Virginia, Ohio, and southern Minnesota; winters In ijie tropics. 



65 1. Olive Warbler {Dendrcrica olivacea). L. 5.2. 

 Ad. t^. Head and breast orange brown, a black band 

 through the eye; back olive-gray; belly grayish; wing- 

 bars white; outer tail-feathers largely white. Ad. V. 

 Above olive-gray, head yellower; eye-band dusky; 

 breast yellow; belly white. Notes. Song, a liquid qutrl 

 quirt, quirt, in a descending scale, (Price.) 



Range,— HIehlands of Guatemala. a.n j Mexico nortli to mountains o( 

 Arizona and New Mexico. 



662. Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica blackbttr- 

 nix). L. 5.2. Ad. tJ^. Throat, line over eye, center 

 of crown, and sides of neck bright orange; back black 

 with a few whitish streaks; wing-bars broadly white; 

 tail-spots white. Ad. ?. Yellow areas paler; above 

 grayish streaked with blackish. Yng. and Ad. in Win- 

 ter, Similar to Ad. ?, but throat paler, back browner; 

 wing with two distinct bars. Notes. Song, vne-ses-wes- 

 sii, tsee-tsie, tsie, tsge-tsee, tsee, tsee, in an ascending 

 scale, the last shrill and fine. 



Ranee. — Eastern North America; breeds from northern New Eng- 

 land (and In Berkshire and Worcester counties, Massachusetts), 

 and northern Minnesota, north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region, 

 (and soutli In Alleghanles to South Carolina) ; winters In tropics. 



687. Redstart {5$tophaga rutidtla) . L. 5.4. Ad. 

 (?. Black; sides of breast, band in wings and in tail rich 

 salmon. Ad. ?. Sides of breast, band in wings and 

 in tail dull ypllow; back olive-brown, crown gray; be- 

 below whitish. Yng. cf . Intermediate between adults. 

 Notes. Song, eking, ching, chee) ssr-wee, swee, swe-e-e. 



Ranee. — North Amtflcal rare on the Pacific coast; bieeJs from 

 North Carolina, and Kansas north to Labrador and Alaska; whiteis 

 In the West Indies, Central and South America, 



748. Golden-crowned Kinglet {T^epilus satrapa). 

 L. 4-1. Ad,(5'^ Crown orange and yellow bordered 

 by black; a whitish line over eye: back grayish olive- 

 green; below soiled whitish. A olackish band in wing 

 bordered basally by yellowish white. Ad. 9- No 

 orange in crown, its whole center yellow. Notes. 

 Call, a fine, high ti-ti; song, five or six fine, shrill 

 high-pitched notes ending in a short, rapid, rather ex- 

 plosive warble, "(w, t^ee, t^ee, tree, ti,ti,tef,ti-ti-ti.'' 

 Range. — North America; breeds from nortnern United Stales north- 

 ward, and southward alonE the Rockies Into Mexico and in the Alle- 

 ehenies to North Carolina: winters from about Its southern breeding: 

 Jlmlt 10 the Gulf States and Mexico. 



7d8a. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet {R. s. 

 olivaeius). Similar to No. 748, but upperparts brighter 

 olive-green; underparts with a brownish tinge. 



Range. — Pacific coast region; breeds from the higher Sierra Ne- 

 vada 01 California north to southern Alaska. 1 87 



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