WARBLER. 167 



Figuier eendre a gorge jaune, Bvf. v. 300. 



Muscicapa e caeruleo, cinereo, fusco et luteo varia, Rait, 186. Sloan. Jam. ii. 310. 44. 



Klein, 75. 16. 

 Jamaica Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 485. Shaw's Zool. x. 612. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill brown ; plumage above 

 ash-colour; throat and neck before yellow; from thence to the vent 

 white ; between the bill and eye a yellow streak ; beneath the eye a 

 large black spot, and behind it a white one; sides of the breast 

 marked with a small black spot; wing coverts brown, with two 

 white bands; quills and tail cinereous brown, edged with grey; the 

 two outer feathers with a spot of white on the inner webs, near the 

 tips; legs brown. 



Inhabits Jamaica, and St. Domingo. 



217.— WORM-EATER WARBLER. 



Sylvia vermivora, Ind. Orn. ii. 544. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 43. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 24. f. 4. 

 Motacilla vertnivora, Gm. Lin. i. 951. 



Ficedula Pennsylvanica, Bris. Sup. 102. Id. 8vo. i. 457. 

 Le Demifin, Mangeur des Vers, Buf. v. 325. 



Worm-eater, Gen. Syn. iv. 499. Edw. pi. 305. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 300. Shaw's 

 Zool. x. 730. 



LENGTH near six inches, breadth eight. Bill dusky, flesh- 

 coloured beneath ; irides hazel ; from the corners of the mouth, 

 through the eye, a narrow line of black ; over it a yellowish one, and 

 above that an arch of black; the rest of the head, throat, and breast, 

 reddish yellow, gradually changing white towards the vent; the 

 upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, dark olive-green ; inner 

 wing coverts and under the tail ash-colour; legs flesh-colour. Male 

 and female much alike, 



Inhabits Pennsylvania in July, in its passage northward, but 

 has not been observed on its return in autumn. 



