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GREEN WARBLER. 



the nostrils, over the eye, chin, and sides of the 

 neck, rich yellow : ears orange : at each angle of 

 the eye is a spot of black: hind head, back, rump, 

 and tail-coverts, yellow olive, thickly streaked with 

 black : the exterior edges of several of the greater 

 wing-coverts are pure white, forming a broad bar 

 on the wings ; rest of the wing dusky, slightly 

 edged with dark olive-yellow : the sides beneath 

 the wings are also of the latter colour, striped 

 with black : belly and vent yellowish white : tail 

 forked; the feathers dusky black, edged with olive- 

 yellow ; the three outer ones on each side marked 

 on their inner vanes with a spot of white : the 

 yellow on the throat and sides of the neck reaches 

 nearly all round it, in the manner of a collar, and 

 is very bright. It inhabits swamps on the Cape 

 May coast. 



GREEN WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia virens.) 



Sy. olivacea, gutture nigro, peel ore, colli capitisque lateribus fiavis, 



abdomine, crisso alarumque fasciis duabus albis, 

 Olive Warbler, with a black throat j the breast and sides of the 



head and neck yellow ; the abdomen, vent, and two bars on 



the wings, white. 

 Sylvia virens. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 537- 112. — Vieil. Ois, de 



VAmer, Sept. 2. 33. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 2. I'd'J, 

 Motaciila virens. GmeL Syst, Nat, i. 985. 

 Ficedula pensylvanica gutture nigro. Briss, Orn, App. 104. 



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