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YELLOW RUMP 



ed on the back with dusky black; lower parts pale dull yellowish 

 white; breast marked with faint streaks of brown; chin and vent 

 white; rump vivid yellow; at each side of the breast, and also on 

 the crown, a spot of fainter yellow; this last not observable with- 

 out separating the plumage; bill, legs and wings black; lesser co- 

 verts tipt with brownish white ; tail coverts slate ; the three exterior 

 tail feathers marked on their inner vanes with white; a touch of 

 the same on the upper and lower eye-lid. Male and female at this 

 season nearly alike. They begin to change about the middle of 

 February, and in four or five weeks are in their slate colored dress, 

 as represented in the figure referred to. 



END OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. 



