FEMALE CERULEAN WARBLER. 
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i nc] J e female azure warbler is four and three-quarter 
|)l a ..i e ? *_ ou a, and eight and a quarter in extent* Bill, 
iri(],, 1S I a b°ve, pale bluish beneath ; feet, light blue ; 
. Ver y dark brown ; head and neck above, and 
?fad’ r ! ok silk y green, brighter on the head, and passing 
bin U ' l '*- V *°to dull bluish on the rump ; line from the 
c at j 0 ° Ver the eye, whitish, above which is the imli- 
st,J!' a blue-black line widening behiud ; a dusky 
passes through the eye ; cheeks, dusky greenish ; 
Op i, entirely whitish, strongly tinged with yellow 
sw , e "bin ; sides of the neck, breast, flanks, and. vent, 
Wuto' ."dll dark bluish; the base of the whole 
W'hijSe is bluish white ; inferior tail-coverts, pure 
" ings and tail, very similar to those of the male, 
tip» ’| ®poh less brilliant ; smaller wing-coverts, bluish, 
bl ac [_. "dth green; middling and large wing-coverts, 
v «r y US widely tipped with white, constituting two 
sli'J . "Pparcnt hands across the wings, the white 
tinged with yellowish at tip; spurious wing, 
green*. ’ ( l ui ll-feathers, blackish, edged externally with 
’ mternally and at tip with whitish, the three 
'Overt 1 the lM >(ty more widely so; the inferior wing- 
slate a’, "’bite; tail, hardly rounded, feathers, dusky 
iV'iiq sll ghtly tinged with bluish externally, and lined 
to* Pure white internally, each with a white spot 
On t > the tip on the inner web. This spot is larger 
tie,.'*' °uter feathers, and decreases gradually until it 
fi inconspicuous on the two middle ones. 
ha V j 0 "Ascription of the male need not here be repeated, 
Wi|J'h r been already given with sufficient accuracy by 
cow **’. ” co whose work the reader is referred. On a 
'lifiTef llS0n °f the description, he will find that the chief 
' )e Oirp <iQC ° between the sexes consists in the female 
Str ea | » re en instead of blue, in her wanting the black 
^p ts > a nd in being tinged with yellow beneath. 
6 have to regret our inability to add much to 
dimensions given by Wilson of the male must be rather 
H ei . ‘de standard, as they are inferior to those of the female, 
48 ah the specimens we examined were larger, as usual. 
