BIRDS SYLVICOLIDAE DENDROICA STRIATA. 
281 
on each side the throat from the chin to the sides of the neck, where it runs into a close patch of black streaks continued along 1 
the breast and sides to the root of the tail. Outer two tail feathers with an oblique patch on the inner web near the end ; the 
others edged internally with white. Female similar, except that the upper parts are olivaceous and, even on the crown, streaked 
with black ; the white on the sides and across the breast tinged with yellowish ; a ring of the same round the eye cut by a dusky 
line through it. Length of male, 5.75 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2.25. 
Hah. — Eastern North America to the Missouri high plains. Cuba, (Gundlach.) Greenland, (Reinhardt.) 
The wings are long and pointed ; the second longest ; the first a little longer than the third. 
The tail is slightly emarginate and scarcely rounded. The size of specimens varies considerably ; 
thus, in one (4645) the wing measures .40 of an inch more than the type selected, (1545.) 
Specimens generally from the Mississippi valley appear larger than more eastern ones. 
The young birds in the autumnal dress are very different from the spring. The upper parts 
are light olive green, obsoletely streaked with brown ; beneath greenish yellow, obsoletely 
streaked on the breast and sides, the under tail coverts pure white, a yellowish ring round the 
eye, and a superciliary one of the same color. In this dress it is scarcely possible to distinguish 
it from the immature D. castanea. The differences as far as tangible will be found detailed 
under the head of the latter species. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length 
Stretch 
of wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1545 
723 
978 
916 
702 
7445 
8310 
8300 
4648 
4650 
4644 
4646 
4649 
4647 
4645 
6501 
6502 
3 
3 
9 
9 
9 
May 17,1844 
Sept. 16, 1842 
May 17,1843 
5.75 
5.50 
5.58 
9.00 
8.33 
3.00 
do 
do 
2.91 
May 23,1842 
West Northfield, III.... 
May 16,1855 
May 13, 
May 27,1857 
May 26,1857 
May 12, 
May 11, 
34 
3 
Wm. M. Magraw. . . 
27 
5.50 
5.50 
5.50 
5.00 
5.25 
5.25 
5.25 
5.50 
5.75 
9.00 
9.12 
9.00 
9.00 
8.75 
8.37 
9.25 
9.25 
3.00 
3.00 
3.12 
2.75 
3.12 
3.00 
3.25 
3.25 
3.25 
Iris brown ; bill bl'k & 
lead color; feet yel. 
Iris brown ; bill black; 
feet brownish. 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
do 
Mouth of Vermilion.... 
May 6, 
May 12, 
May 10, 
do 
April 26, 
36 b 
