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through the eye, dusky black ; chin, lower part of the breast, belly, 

 and vent, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the breast, white 

 and cinereous mottled ; sides of the breast yellow, falling over the 

 wings, which are dusky ; across the coverts two white bands ; quills 

 edged with grey ; tail the same, but the inner webs of the three outer 

 feathers marked with a spot of white near the tip; legs blackish. 



The female inclines more to brown above, wants the black through 

 the eye, and all the under parts dusky white and pale brown mixed ; 

 the crown and rump are also of a less deep yellow than in the male. 



These arrive in Pennsylvania in spring, and after remaining three 

 or four days, proceed northward to breed ; the same in Nova Scotia. 

 I have also received both sexes as above, from Mr. Hutchins, which 

 came from Hudson's Bay. Mr. Abbot informs me, that they are not 

 uncommon about Savannah, in Georgia, and called Yellow Rump ; 

 come there in numbers among other birds, but in general depart in 

 company of their own species ; are often very fat and well flavoured, 

 hence reckoned by the French among the rest of the birds called 

 Grassets. 



A. — Length six inches, breadth ten. Bill and legs dusky; 

 plumage above greyish olive brown, with dusky spots on the back ; 

 throat, breast, and under parts white ; on the middle of the crown a 

 large yellow spot, and another at the shoulder of the wing; the 

 rump also is yellow; tail black, the four middle feathers plain, the 

 two outer ones marked with a white spot within near the end. 



The female has the head, including the eyes, olive-yellow; an 

 obscure yellowish streak on the crown ; back as in the other ; rump 

 yellow ; beneath white, but the breast inclines to yellow, streaked 

 with dusky ; wings and tail pale cinereous blue ; tips of the lower 

 wing coverts and margins of the quills very pale ; tail blackish, the 

 two outer feathers yellowish within near the ends. 



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