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197.— CAROLINA WARBLER. 



Sylvia Carolinensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 551. 

 Figuier tacliete, Buf. v. 286. PL enl. 58. 1. 



Olive Warbler, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 307. Gen. Syn. iv. 515. No. 158. Var. Id. Sup. 183. 

 Shaw's Zool. x. 752. 



LENGTH full five inches. Bill rather stout, dusky; above 

 the plumage is fine olive-green, beneath fine, full yellow; lower 

 belly and vent pale ash-colour; wings dusky brown, across the 

 coverts two whitish bars, from the tips of the feathers being of that 

 colour ; quills plain ; tail two inches and a quarter long, a trifle 

 forked, colour as the quills, which reach to about half the length ; 

 legs brown. 



The female is olive-brown above, pale ash beneath, with a tinge 

 of yellow on the breast; wings brown, crossed with two pale cine- 

 reous bars on the coverts : in both sexes the three outer tail feathers 

 are marked with white on the inner webs ; the exterior white on the 

 inner web, except one-fourth from the base, and just at the tip ; the 

 next the same ; but the third with only one spot of white on the 

 inner web; the tail otherwise dusky brown. 



Inhabits Carolina ; found also about Savannah in Georgia ; received 

 from Mr. Abbot, by the name of Yellow Poll. — In the collection of 

 Mr. Francillon. 



198 —PRAIRIE WARBLER. 



Sylvia minuta, Prairie Warbler, Am. Orn. iii. pi. 25. f. 4. 



LENGTH four inches and a half, breadth six inches and a half. 

 Bill brown ; general colour of the plumage above olive-green, be- 

 neath yellow ; on the beginning of the back, the middle of the 

 feathers are ferruginous, forming spots ; the middle wing coverts 



