FEMALE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 171 
near Camden, New Jersey, and, with his usual kindness and 
zeal for natural history, communicated it to us for this work. 
This little warbler differs so materially from its mate as to 
require a distinct figure and description in order to be recog- 
nised ; yet we cannot fail to perceive a kind of family resem- 
blance between the sexes ; and by comparing the two descrip- 
tions and accompanying figures, our readers will agree with 
us that they are but one and the same species, in a different 
garniture of plumage. ‘The distribution of markings is really 
similar in both sexes, but in the female the colours are paler, 
and green prevails on those parts which in the male are of a 
dark slate colour. 
The female of the golden-winged warbler is four and a half 
inches long. ‘The bill is blackish, straight, entire, rounded, 
and gradually tapering to a sharp point. ‘The feet are 
brownish ash ; the irides, dark brown. The front is golden 
yellow ; the top of the head, bright olive yellow; the back of 
the head, and superior parts of the neck and body, are of a 
pale plumbeous hue, the feathers being tipped with yellow 
olive, more particularly on the rump; the superior tail-coverts 
are pure pale plumbeous. A wide slate-coloured stripe passes 
through the eye from the bill, and dilates on the cheeks; this 
is margined by a white line above the eye, and by a wider one 
on each side of the throat. The throat is of a pale slate 
colour, becoming still paler on the breast. The remaining 
under parts are whitish, occasionally tinged with yellow, and 
with slate colour on the flanks. he wings are of the same 
colour as the back, but somewhat darker, and are crossed by 
two wide bands of bright yellow, formed by the tips of the 
first and second rows of wing-coverts. The primaries are 
dusky, margined on the exterior web with pale, and on the 
inner broadly with white. The secondaries are broadly mar- 
gined with yellow olive on the outer web, and with white on 
the inner web. The tail is nearly even at tip, of a dusky 
plumbeous colour ; the three lateral feathers have a large pure 
white spot on the inner web. 
