FEMALE CAPE-MAY WARBLER. 33 
feather having a small blackish spot on the middle. A yellow line 
extends from the bill over the eye, and is prolonged in an obsolete 
trace around the auditory region, thence returning to the corner 
of the mouth. A blackish line passes through the eye which is 
circumscribed by a whitish circle; the cheeks are dull cinereous, 
with very small pale spots; the upper parts of the neck and of the 
body are olive-cinereous, tinged with more cinereous on the neck, 
and with yellow-olive on the rump. The chin is whitish; the 
throat, breast, and flanks are whitish, slightly tinged with yellow¬ 
ish, each feather having a blackish spot on the middle; the belly 
is immaculate; the vent and inferior tail coverts are shaded in the 
middle of each feather with dusky. The smaller wing coverts 
are dull olive-green, blackish in the centre; the middling wing- 
coverts are black, margined exteriorly, and tipped with pure white; 
the greater wing coverts are blackish, margined with olive-white; 
the primaries are dusky, finely edged with bright olive-green on 
the exterior web, obsolete on that of the first primary, which is of 
the same length as the fourth; the second and third are longest, 
and but little longer than the fourth. The tail is slightly emargin- 
ated, the feathers being dusky, edged with bright olive-green on 
the exterior side, and with white on the interior; the two or three 
exterior feathers on each side have a pure white spot on their inner 
webs near the tip. 
The female Cape-May Warbler may be very easily mistaken 
for an imperfect Sylvia coronata, of which four or five nominal 
species have already been made. The striking resemblance it 
bears to the young, and to the autumnal condition of the plumage 
in that species, requires a few comparative observations to prevent 
their being confounded together. 
The present bird is smaller than the coronata , with a more 
slendei, and lather more elongated bill; it is altogether destitute 
of the yellow spot on the head, as well as of the yellow on the 
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