SYLVICOLIN^. SYLVICOLA. 
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straight, the tip slightly decimate, the edges overlapping, 
with a slight notch ; lower mandible with the angle short 
and rounded, the dorsal line straight, the sides convex, the 
edges a little inclinate, the tip narrow. Nostrils basal, oval 
or oblong, partially concealed by the feathers. Head of or- 
dinary size ; neck short ; body rather slender. Feet of or- 
dinary length, rather slender ; tarsus longer than the middle 
toe, much compressed, covered anteriorly with seven scu- 
tella, very sharp behind ; toes of moderate length, slender, 
free, the outer united as far as the second joint, the hind 
toe proportionally large ; claws moderate, well arched, much 
compressed, laterally grooved, very acute. Plumage soft 
and blended. Bristles at the base of the upper mandible 
feeble. Wings rather long, little curved, pointed ; the se- 
cond quill longest, the first and third slightly shorter. Tail 
rather long, emarginate. 
76. 1. Sylvicola coronata. Lath. Yellow-crowned Wood- 
Warbler. Yellow- crowned Warbler. Yellow-rump 
Warbler. 
Second quill longest, third scarcely shorter, first longer than fourth ; 
tail slightly emarginate. Male with the upper parts deep ash-grey, 
streaked with black ; crown, rump, and a patch on the sides of the 
body, rich yellow : secondary coverts, and first row of small coverts 
tipped with white, which forms two bars on the wing ; quills dark 
brown, margined with light greyish-brown ; tail feathers brownish- 
black, margined with ash-grey, the outer three on each side with a 
white patch on the inner web near the end ; a slender white line over 
the eye ; feathers of the eyelids white ; lore and cheek black ; throat 
white ; lower neck, fore part of breast and sides variegated with 
black, the tips of the feathers being white ; the rest of the lower parts 
white. Female without the yellow spot on the crown, although the 
feathers there are tinged with that colour at the base ; the upper parts 
tinged with light brown, the yellow spots on the sides and rump 
paler. 
Male, 8^. 
From Texas northward, and throughout the interior. Extremely 
common. Migratory. 
Yellow-riimp Warbler, Sylvia coronata, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 138- 
Sylvia coronata, Bonap. Syn. p. 78. 
Yellow-crowned Warbler, or Myrtle Bird, Sylvia coronata, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 361. 
Yellow-rump Warbler, Sylvia coronata, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 303. 
