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CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



The length of this species is five inches and a half, extent 

 eight and a half; bill and legs black; whole upper part of the 

 head deep black; line from the nostril over the eye, chin and sides 

 of the neck rich yellow; ear feathers orange, which also tints the 

 back part of the yellow line over the eye; at the anterior and pos- 

 terior angle of the eye is a small touch of black; hind head and 

 whole back, rump and tail coverts yellow olive, thickly streaked 

 with black; the upper exterior edges of several of the greater wing 

 coverts are pure white, forming a broad bar on the wing, the next 

 superior row being also broadly tipt with white; rest of the wing 

 dusky, finely edged with dark olive yellow; throat and whole breast 

 rich yellow, spreading also along the sides under the wings, hand- 

 somely marked with spots of black running in chains; belly and 

 vent yellowish white; tail forked, dusky black, edged with yellow 

 olive, the three exterior feathers on each side marked on their 

 inner vanes with a spot of white. The yellow on the throat and 

 sides of the neck reaches nearly round it, and is very bright, 



