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BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
The present species, although not abundant, is found through- 
out the Bahamas during the winter. We occasionally met with 
it during December and January, and on the 26th of the latter 
month I observed several of them flitting about among the trees in 
front of the hotel at Nassau. Its food, like others of its family, 
consists mainly of insects. 
Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. II. pi. 85. 
DENDRCECA DISCOLOR. ( Vieil.) 
Prairie Warbler. 
Winter Plumage, Male. — Above, olive-green; the interscapular 
region with faint indications of chestnut; under parts, yellow, faintly 
striped with ash upon the sides ; throat, yellow, showing slight traces 
of white ; a narrow yellow stripe from the nostril encircling the 
eye, broken at its posterior part by a streak of ash ; quills and tail- 
feathers, brown, edged with white ; two outer tail-feathers with a 
long patch of white upon the inner webs. 
Winter Plumage, Female. — Similar to the male, but the mark- 
ings much paler; yellow stripe of the eye very indistinct, and of a 
pale yellowish w'hite. 
Length 4.50, wing 2.10, tail 2, tarsus .74, bill .40. 
This pretty little Warbler is one of the most abundant species 
found on the islands. Upon almost every key, large enough to admit 
of the growth of a few bushes, they were to be found, searching 
