CONNECTICUT WOOD-WARBLER. 
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Wings long, with the first quill longest, and exceeding the first secondary 
by eleven-twelfths of an inch ; middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus ; 
tail of moderate length, nearly even, with acuminate feathers. Male olive- 
green above ; a ring of yellowish-white round the eye ; the head, neck all 
around, and part of the breast ash-grey, the sides greyish-green ; the rest of 
the lower parts bright yellow. Female olive-green above, yellow beneath, 
the sides of the neck and a band across the breast tinged with brown. 
Male, 53, 8. 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Yery rare. Migratory. 
Gentiana safonaria, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 1388. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., 
vol. i. p. 185. — Pentandria Digynia, Linn. — Gentiane.e, Juss. 
Stem round, smooth ; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, three nerved ; flowers ses- 
sile, tufted, terminal and axillar ; corolla quinquefid.campanulate, veil tricose, 
with the divisions obtuse, the internal plaits with toothed segments. It 
grows in meadows and woods, from Canada to Carolina, flowering in August 
and September. 
GENUS III.— TRICHAS, Swains. GROUND- WARBLER. 
Bill of moderate length, similar in form to that of Sylvicola, differing only 
in being a little decurved. The general form does not differ materially from 
that of Sylvicola, the head being ovate and of moderate size, the neck short, 
the body rather slender ; the feet of moderate length, slender ; tarsus slender, 
much compressed, longer than the middle toe with its claw, anteriorly 
covered with eight scutella, of which the upper are blended ; toes of moderate 
size, hind toe proportionally large, lateral toes equal, fourth adherent at the 
base ; claws rather long, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, very 
acute. Plumage soft and blended. Wings rather short, convex, considerably 
rounded, the third and fourth quills longest, the fifth little shorter. Tail of 
moderate length, rounded, always plain, or without white spots. 
