GOLDEN-CROWNED WARBLER. 63? 



With the body above olive-grey, with the throat and fore-part 



of the neck red and grey mixed. 

 Sylvia pinguis. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 543. 132. 

 Motacilla pinguis. Gmel. Si/st, Nat. 1. 9/3. 

 Figuier grasset. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 319- 

 Grasset Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 411. 3U.^Lath, Gen, 



Syn. 4. 496. 127. 

 ^ gula pectoreque albis,Jere impunctatis. 

 With the throat and breast white, scarcely spotted. 

 Sylvia umbria. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 518. 34. 

 Motacilla umbria. Gme/. Syst. Nat. 1 . 959. 

 Fauvette ombree de la Louisiane. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 162. 

 Fauvette tachetee de la Louisiane. Buff. PL EnL 7^9- f' !• 

 Dusky Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool 2. 410. 309. 

 Umbrose Warbler. Lath. Gen. Si/n, 4. 437. 30. 



The four species of Warblers, designated by the 

 names of Golden-crowned, Belted, Grasset, and 

 Umbrose, by Dr. Latham, are said, by Mons. 

 Vieillot, to form but one genuine species; and, as 

 the differences are but trifling, he most probably is 

 correct. The usual appearance of this bird agrees 

 tolerably well with the following description ; after 

 which the several varieties will be noticed. Its 

 beak is dusky : the upper parts of its plumage are 

 grey blue, spotted with black : the crown of the 

 head, rump, and sides of the breast, yellow, the 

 latter sprinkled with a few black spots : the cheeks 

 and throat whitish : through the eyes a band of 

 black: wing-coverts and quills dusky, the first 

 with two bands of white, and the latter edged 

 with grey : fore-part of the neck and upper part 

 of the breast black, varied with grey blue : the 

 rest of the under parts of the plumage are white ; 

 the sides slightly spotted with dusky : tail similar 

 to the quills, with a spot of white at the tips of 



