The Black-throated Gray Warbler 



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BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS 



No. 88 



Black-throated Gray Warbler 



A. O. U. No. 665. Dendroica nigrescens (Townsend). 



Description. — Adult male in spring and summer: A supraloral spot of rich 

 yellow (lemon-chrome); remaining plumage black, white, and warbler gray; head, 

 throat, and chest black, interrupted bj' supra-auricular stripe of white, and by a malar 

 stripe of white, broadening on side of neck; remaining upperparts chiefly blue-gray or 

 "warbler gray" (dark green-blue gray), marked with black in inverted wedge-shaped 

 spots on back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts; wings black or dusky, edged narrowly 

 with bluish ash or white, the quills broadl} 7 margined with white on the inner webs, the 

 middle and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two conspicuous bands; rec- 

 trices black, the two outermost pairs narrowly edged with white, and all the feathers, 

 except the middle pair, marked with white on the inner webs in sharply decreasing order, 

 from nearly totally in the outermost to mere subterminal marginings on the 4th and 5th 

 pairs; remaining underparts white, the sides sharply and heavily streaked with black. 

 Bill black; iris brown; legs and feet blackish. Adult male hi fall and winter: Much as 



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