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LOUISIANE WARBLER, 

 (Sylvia Liidoviciana.) 



Sy. olivacea, gutture pectoreque rubro-maculato j^avis, abdomine 

 ochroleuco, alarum Jasciis duabus, rectricibusque duabus ex* 

 timis intus ad apicem albis, 



Olive Warbler, with the throat and breast yellow, spotted with 

 red ; the abdomen yellowish white ; the wings with two bands, 

 and the two outer tail-feathers white towards the tip within. 



Sylvia ludoviciana. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 535. 105, 



Motacilla ludoviciana. Gmel. Si/sL Nat. i. QS3, 



Ficedula ludoviciana. Briss. Orn. 3. 500. 55. pi. 26./', 4. 



Figuier k gorge jaune. Buf. Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 288. 



Louisiane Warbler, Pen, Arct, Zool. 2. 407. 303. — Lath, Gen, 

 Syn. 4. 480. 101. 



Length four inches and a quarter : beak brown, 

 with the lower mandible grey : the plumage on 

 the upper parts of the body olive-green : wings 

 with two white stripes : the quills dusky brown, 

 with blue-grey edges, and their inner webs white : 

 the fore-part of the neck and breast yellow, the 

 latter spotted with red : the rest of the under parts 

 yellowish white : the two outer tail-feathers tipped 

 with white on their inner webs, and the next with 

 a small oval spot at the tip : legs cinereous : the 

 female has the breast plain. It inhabits North 

 America. 



