176 WARBLER. 



In some birds the middle of the crown only is yellow, in others 

 the forehead also ; and the black band is bounded on each side with 

 white ; the yellow spot on the wings larger, occupying the middle, 

 and greater coverts, and forming a large patch. 



227.— YELLOW-VENTED WARBLER. 



LENGTH five inches and a half; breadth eight and a half. Bill 

 and legs pale brown; crown chestnut; plumage above pale olive 

 brown, the margins of the feathers paler, nearly yellow, inclining 

 more to yellow on the rump ; the under parts of the body yellow, 

 growing more intense at the vent ; over the eye a yellow streak ; 

 through the eye a dusky one ; under the jaw a narrow black line like 

 a whisker; on the breast several pale ferruginous dashes; tail black, 

 one or more of the outer feathers white, half way from the base. 



Found about Georgia, in autumn, and the first part of the winter, 

 in small flocks, about old fields and plantations. According to Mr. 

 Abbot, the outer tail feather is white on the inner web, one-third 

 from the end ; the next the same for about half, and the third white 

 only just at the tip; the general colour otherwise blackish brown. 



The female has not the chestnut crown ; under parts of the body- 

 pale yellowish brown, with a few streaks on the breast ; the vent a 

 full yellow. 



228 —STREAKED-CROWNED WARBLER. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 black ; plumage above pale cinereous grey, beneath very pale whitish 

 ash ; lower belly and vent white ; the wings darker, cinereous grey ; 

 middle and greater wing coverts with white ends, forming two bands ; 

 quills dusky, fringed with white ; down the middle of the crown a 

 white streak ; tail the colour of the quills, but not fringed on the 

 margins, and rather hollowed out at the end ; legs slender, black. 



In the Collection of Lord Stanley. 



