Den&roica blackburniae. 
Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer¬ 
tain North Am, Bbo. Wm. Bre-wstor. 
29. Dendroeca blackburniae. 
First plumage: male and female. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in au¬ 
tumnal adult; rest of upper parts uniform dark brown, each feather on 
the back edged with light buff; the white scapular stripe poorly defined. 
Head markings precisely similar in pattern to the adults’, but with the 
orange everywhere replaced by white, slightly tinged with buff on pos¬ 
terior half of superciliary line. Throat and' entire under parts, in the 
male, clear white, tinged with pale yellow, each feather (excepting on 
throat) spotted terminally with black. From two specimens in my col¬ 
lection taken at Upton, Me., August 5 and 6, 1874. One of these, the 
male, has a few orange feathers on the throat, indicating the coming fall 
plumage. 
“ Youn S m autumn. Above similar to the adult female in fall plumage, 
but more olivaceous ; all the markings less distinct. Superciliary stripe 
and entire lower parts, except the crissum, pale yellowish-buff, hardly 
brighter on the jugulum. Sides very faintly streaked with grayish. In 
my collection (No. 1003), Mt. Carmel, Ill., August 15, 1870.” — R. R. 
Buli. N.O.O. 3, April, 1878. p. 6%'. 
