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°S94 J Palmer, Plumages of the Hooded Warbler. 
publication was delayed, so that I have now before me a series of 
twenty-six specimens, illustrating the young of the year after 
leaving the nest, and all collected in Hanover and King William 
Counties, Virginia, besides a large series of adults from the same 
and other localities. 
I quote below various statements that I have found in the 
literature of the species, having italicized the parts which differ 
from the facts as illustrated in my specimens. 
Professor Baird, in the Pacific R. R. Report (Vol. IX, p. 292), 
says: “An immature male differs from that described above by 
having the black of the head restricted to a margin of the yellow 
on the top and sides, and a faint indication of the same on 
the throat.” 
In the Hist. N. Am. Birds (p. 314) he also says: “A young 
male in second year (2245, Carlisle, Penn., May) is similar to 
the female, but the hood is sharply defined anteriorly, though 
only bordered with black, the olive-green reaching forward 
almost to the yellow ; there are very slight indications of black 
on the throat. Apparently the male of this species does not attain 
the full plumage until the third year.” 
Dr. J. M. Wheaton (Report on the Birds of Ohio, 1S82, 
p. 279 ) describes a young tnale taken at Columbus, Ohio, 
August 25, 1S74, as follows: “Above, yellow-olive, concealed 
yellow from bill to eyes ; feathers of crown and occiput with dark 
plumbeous bases and centers, some of the feathers of sides of 
crown with scarcely concealed black tips, line from bill 
over and around eye bright lemon yellow, separated from the 
uniform yellow of throat, breast, and abdomen, by dusky lores 
and olive-yellow auriculars ; under tail coverts very light yellow. 
Tail spots as in the adult. Bill very pale, dusky shaded.” 
This description agrees in some respects with Professor Baird's 
specimen mentioned above, obtained by him at Carlisle, Pa., 
May 7, 1S45, and labeled as a male by the collector. I have no 
hesitation whatever in calling Dr. Wheaton’s bird a young female of 
the year, and Professor Baird’s specimen a female at least two 
years old : the error of sexing having been caused by the fact that 
the supra -renal capsules were mistaken for testes. Unfortunately 
this error is only too easily possible when birds are left for some 
time before skinning or when injured internally. 
