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SPOTTED YELLOW WARBLER. 



and rump, olive : upper wing-coverts brown, 

 tipped with white, and forming two bars of that 

 colour on the wings: quills brown : through the 

 eye a black streak : the throat, neck, and breast, 

 yellow: belly and vent white : tail brown, slightly 

 forked : the outer webs of the exterior feathers 

 white : the female is entirely brown. This bird 

 has very much the manner of a Creeper, running 

 up and down the decayed trunks of trees in search 

 of insects and their larvas. 



SPOTTED YELLOW WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia tigrina.) 



SY,Juscaf pennarum margine olimceo, subtus uropygioque Jlava, 



abdomine inferiori sordide ochroleuco, litura aurium rufa^ reC' 



tricum remigumque margine olivaceo. 

 Brown Warbler, with the edges of the feathers olive ; the under 



parts and rump yellow; the lower belly dirty yellow-white ; 



spot on the ears rufous ; the tail-feathers and^uills edged wi^ 



olive. 



Sylvia tigrina. Lath. Ind, Orn, 2, 537. HO* — Vieil, Ois, de 



VAmer. Sept, 2. 34. 

 Motacilla tigrina. Gmel. Syst. Nat» 1. 985. 

 Ficedula canadensis fusca. Briss, Orn, 3. 515. 63* pL 2y,f. 4. 

 Figuier tachete de jaune. Buff, Hist, Nat, Ois, 5, 293. 

 La Fauvette tigree, VieiL Ois, de PAmer, Sept, 2. 34. pi. 94. 

 Spotted Yellow Flycatcher. Edwards, Glean, pi", 257, 

 Spotted Yellow Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2, 407. 302.^Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 4. 4S2. 106. 



