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Wings long, with the first quill longest, and exceeding the first secondary 

 by eleven-twelfths of an inch; middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus; 

 tail of moderate length, nearly even, with acuminate feathers. Male olive- 

 green above; a ring of yellowish-white round the eye; the head, neck all 

 around, and part of the breast ash-grey, the sides greyish-green; the rest of 

 the lower parts bright yellow. Female olive-green above, yellow beneath, 

 the sides of the neck and a band across the breast tingell with brown. 



Male, 5§, 8. 



New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Very rare. Migratory. 



Gentiana saponaria, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 1388. Pursch, Flor. Amer., Sept. vol. i. 

 p. 1S5. — Pentandria Digynia, Linn. — Gentiane^;, Juss. 



Stem round, smooth; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, three nerved; flowers ses- 

 sile, tufted, terminal and axillar; corolla quinquefid, campanulate, ventricose, 

 with the divisions obtuse, the internal plaits with toothed segments. It 

 grows in meadows and woods, from Canada to Carolina, flowering in August 

 and September. 



GENUS III.— TRICHAS, Swains. GROUND- WARBLER. 



Bill of moderate length, similar in form to that of Sylvicola, differing only 

 in being a little decurved. The general form does not differ materially from 

 that of Sylvicola, the head being ovate and of moderate size, the neck short, 

 the body rather slender; the feet of moderate length, slender; tarsus slender, 

 much compressed, longer than the middle toe with its claw, anteriorly cover- 

 ed with eight scutella, of which the upper are blended; toes of moderate size, 

 hind toe proportionally large, lateral toes equal, fourth adherent at the base; 

 claws rather long, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, very acute. 

 Plumage soft and blended. Wings rather short, convex, considerably round- 

 ed, the third and fourth quills longest, the fifth little shorter. Tail of mode- 

 rate length, rounded, always plain, or without white spots. 



