YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 



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slate color; the tail is somewhat forked, black, and edged with 

 light slate ; the wings are also black, the three shortest seconda- 

 ries broadly edged with light blue; all the wing quills are slightly 

 edged with the same; the first row of wing coverts are tipt and 

 edged with white, the second wholly white, or nearly so ; the front- 

 let, ear feathers, lores and above the temple, are black; the line 

 between the eye and nostril, whole throat and middle of the breast 

 brilliant golden yellow; the lower eye-lid, line over the eye, and 

 spot behind the ear feathers, as well as the whole lower parts, are 

 pure white ; the yellow on the throat is bordered with touches of 

 black, which also extend along the sides under the wings; the bill 

 is black, and faithfully represented in the figure; the legs and feet 

 yellowish brown; the claws extremely fine pointed; the tongue 

 rather cartilaginous, and lacerated at the end. The female has the 

 wings of a dingy brown, and the whole colors, particularly the yel- 

 low on the throat, much duller; the young birds of the first season 

 are without the yellow. 



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