S YL VIC OLIDiE — THE WARBLERS. 
Genus PERISSOGLOSSA, Baird. (Page 20.) 
Common Characters. Male. Top of head black. Above olive, becoming yel- 
lowish on rump. Head, neck, and lower parts bright yellow, becoming w 7 hitish 
posteriorly. Dorsal feathers with black centres ; breast and sides streaked with 
black. A black streak through the eye. Length about 5.25. Arboreal. Nest 
in trees. 
P. tigrina. Large white patches on inner webs of tail-feathers. 
Sides of head and middle' of throat tinged with chestnut. One large 
white patch on wing, covering both rows of coverts. Outer web of 
lateral tail-feather blackish. Hah. Eastern United States to fur coun- 
tries. In winter in Greater Antilles. ( Cape May Warbler.') 
P. carbonata. No white patches on tail-feathers.- 
No chestnut about head. Two bands on the wing, the anterior one 
white, the posterior yellow. Outer web of lateral tail-feather whitish. 
Hah. Kentucky. ( Carbonated Warbler.) 
Genus DENDROICA, Gray. (Page 20.) 
Species and Varieties. 
Common Characters. Length about 5.00 to 5.75. Tail always with a white spot; 
its ground-color never clear olive-green. Only in D. cestiva with yellow spot on inner 
edge. Eggs usually with a white or a bluish-white ground, marked with purplish-brown 
and obscure lilac ; in some, mingled with varying shades of sienna-brown. Nest, so far 
as known, in bushes and trees, except D. palmarum , which is on the ground. 
Inner webs of tail-feathers with a large patch, or broad edge, of yellow . Group A. 
Inner webs of tail-feathers with a large patch, or broad edge, of white. 
Wings with conspicuous white markings Group B. 
Wings without conspicuous white markings Group C. 
Group A. — Golden Warblers. 
Rump and crissum without rufous markings Series I. 
Rump and crissum with rufous markings Series II. 
Series I. 
Prevailing color rich yellow, shaded on upper parts with olive-green. $ with 
streaks of chestnut across the breast and along the sides, and with or without 
a greater or less tinge of the same on the crown. 9 with the streaks beneath 
obsolete or entirely wanting ; no rufous on crown. Juv. paler and duller than 
the 9 , sometimes quite ashy. 
A. Tarsus less than .65 of an inch. Outer webs of tail-feathers with yellow pre- 
dominating. 
1. D. sestivu. Crown generally pure yellow, sometimes with only a 
tinge of rufous ; lower webs of wing-coverts and tertials pure yellow ; 
rump and upper tail-coverts much mixed with the same. Wing- 
formula, 1 == 2, 3 ; wing, 2.60 ; tail, 2.05 ; bill, from nostril, .30 ; tarsus, 
.62. Hah. Entire continent of North America ; in winter south to 
Bogota and Cayenne ; Trinidad (only locality in West Indies). ( Yellow 
Warbler.) 
