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GOLDEN- CROWNED WARBLER. 



the inner webs of the three outer feathers : legs 

 dusky. 



The first variety principally differs in having a 

 white line over the eyes, and their orbits being 

 also of that colour : the fore-part of the neck and 

 breast are only spotted with blackish, and not, as 

 in the former, a stripe of that colour varied with 

 blue ; the yellow on the sides of the breast is pro- 

 duced into a slender band that encircles that part; 

 and the plumage above is very deep grey blue, 

 scarcely spotted with black. 



The nextj or Grasset Warbler, has the body 

 above greyish olive, sprinkled with black : the 

 throat and fore-part of the neck are varied with 

 pale rufous and ash-colour; in other respects it 

 agrees with the first. 



The Umbrose Warbler is destitute of any par- 

 ticular marks on the lower parts of the throat and 

 breast, those parts being white, with one or two 

 dusky spots : it likewise wants the stripe through 

 the eyeS; so conspicuous in the first described. 



All the above varieties are found in the United 

 States, where they make their appearance in the 

 spring, and return in the autumn : they get very 

 fat before their departure, when they are greatly 

 prized as a delicacy. 



This species arrives in Pensylvania in October, 

 where it remains three or four weeks, feeding on 

 red cedar berries ; it then leaves, departing to the 

 south : about the middle of April it returns : it is 

 a lively active bird, but has scarcely any note, 

 having only a kind of chirp, which is frequently 

 repeated : its nest and eggs are unknown. 



