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grey brown markings, and the young are hatched in July ; feeds on 

 flies ; cries against rain, with a shrill kind of note, which it lengthens 

 out considerably at that time ; hence the natives call it Kimmewan 

 Apaykuteshish. 



204— BELTED WARBLER. 



Sylvia cincta, Ind. Orn. ii. 539. 



Motacilla cincta, Gm. Lin. i. 980. 



Motacilla Canadensis, Lin. i. 334. 



Ficedula Canadensis cinerea, Bris. iii. 524. t. 27. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 453. 



Le Figuier a ceinture, Buf. v. 303. 



Belted Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 487. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 306. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill black ; plumage above cinereous 

 blue, nearly black ; on the middle of the crown a spot of yellow : 

 over the eye a white streak ; round the eye the same ; across the 

 wing coverts two white bands ; under parts of the body white, but 

 the lower part of the neck and breast spotted with blackish ; across 

 the breast a yellow band, a quarter of an inch broad ; tail coverts 

 yellow; quills brown, edged with grey ; tail rather forked, blackish, 

 the feathers edged with ash-colour, the outer one marked within 

 with white near the tip; legs brown. 



The female is brown above, the upper tail coverts not yellow. 



Inhabits Canada. 



On comparing the Golden-crowned, Yellow-rumped, and Belted 

 Warblers, so many markings appear in common, as to cause sus- 

 picion of a near alliance between them ; which seems confirmed from 

 the observations in the American Ornithology ; and that the male, 

 in a most perfect state of plumage, is fine slate-colour, streaked with 

 black ; crown, sides of the breast, and rump, rich yellow ; wings 

 and tail black ; on the wings two bars of black ; on the three outer 

 tail feathers a long patch of white on the inner webs; cheeks and 

 front black ; chin, and line over and under the eye, white ; breast 



