Birds. 5801 



wing-coverts black, tipped with white. Length of thigh 1 inch ; tar- 

 sus 8- fourths of an inch; middle toe ^ an inch, claw 2-tenths; inner 

 toe 4-tenths of an inch, claw 1| -tenth ; outer toe 3}-- tenths, claw 1|- 

 tenth ; hind toe 3-tenths, claw 2-tenlhs. Although differing much 

 both in size and colour, it bears a striking resemblance to the Euro- 

 pean bird in form and note, as well as in manner of feeding. The 

 one I have so imperfectly described (for it was much injured in the 

 shooting) was perched on a thistle. 



Yellow Wood Wren (probably the Yellow-throat of Wilson, Sylvia 

 marylandica). August 24. — Shot a yellow wood wren. Length 5 

 inches and 1- tenth; extent of wings 1\ inches; bill along ridge 3}- 

 tenths, lower mandible 4-tenths (from plumes 3-tenths), bluish black, 

 but light beneath and on the sides ; forehead yellowish green, nape 

 and back olive-green ; cheeks, neck, and whole under parts of a most 

 delicate light yellow, but it is of a darker hue between the upper 

 mandible and eye, and beneath the wing becomes of a bright yellow; 

 there are also spots or streaks of the same on the breast and sides ; 

 eye small and black ; body rather broad and full ; wing, third quill 

 longest, second nearly as long, from fourth to ninth regularly gradua- 

 ting, tenth considerably shorter, and up to the fifteenth inclusive of 

 about equal length, but the sixteenth is 1 J-tenth longer, the seventeenth 

 decreases by 2-tenths of an inch and the eighteenth by 3-tenths; 

 wing rather short, from flexure 2j inches ; quills hair-brown, mar- 

 gined with bright yellow on the outer webs, and with yellowish white 

 on the inner, each quill being slightly tipped with gray ; feathers of 

 spurious wing dark brown, but very broadly margined with greenish 

 yellow ; primary coverts hair-brown, margined and tipped with light 

 grayish yellow ; secondary coverts hair-brown, broadly margined on 

 the outer webs with pale yellow, and slightly edged with gray on the 

 inner ; the under wing-coverts are of a bright and glossy yellow ; 

 sides and thighs olive-green, intermixed with yellow ; tail 1 inch and 

 9-tenths, — lateral feathers longest, hair-brown, margined with dark 

 yellow on the outer and with light yellow on the inner webs, — the 

 centre ones dark brown on the shafts and at the tips, the rest of the 

 feathers being of a light yellow ; tarsus, toes and claws of a light red- 

 dish brown; sides of the neck gray, with a greenish tinge; thigh 1 

 inch, tarsus 8-tenths; hind toe 2j-tenths, claw 2-tenths; middle toe \ 

 an inch, claw lj-tenth of an inch ; inner toe 3-tenths, claw lj-tcnth; 

 outer toe 3-tenths, claw 1 J- tenth. 



Night Hawk (Caprimulgus americamis, Wilson). August 26. — 

 Shot a male bird of this species. Length 9\ inches; extent of wings 

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