FEMALE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
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and the same species, in a different garniture of plumage. The 
distribution of markings is really similar in both sexes; but in the 
female the colours are paler, and green prevails on those parts 
which, in the male, are of a dark slate-colour. 
The female of the Golden-winged Warbler is four and a half 
inches long. The bill is blackish, straight, entire, rounded, and 
gradually tapering to a sharp point. The feet are brownish-ash; 
the irides dark-brown. The front is golden-yellow, the top of the 
head bright olive-yellow; the back of the head, and superior parts 
of the neck and body, are of a pale plumbeous hue, the feathers 
being tipped with yellow-olive, more particularly on the rump; 
the superior tail coverts are pure pale plumbeous. A wide slate- 
coloured stripe passes through the eye from the bill and dilates on 
the cheeks; this is margined by a white line above the eye, and 
by a wider one on each side of the throat. The throat is of a 
pale slate-colour, becoming still paler on the breast. The remain¬ 
ing under parts are whitish, occasionally tinged with yellow, and 
with slate-colour on the flanks. The wings are of the same colour 
as the back, but somewhat darker, and are crossed by two wide 
bands of bright yellow, formed by the tips of the first and second 
rows of wing coverts. The primaries are dusky, margined on 
the exterior web with pale, and on the inner broadly with white. 
The secondaries are broadly margined with yellow-olive on the 
outer web, and with white on the inner web. The tail is nearly 
even at tip, of a dusky plumbeous colour; the three lateral feathers 
have a large pure white spot on the inner web. 
This last essential character also exists in the male, though 
Wilson has not mentioned it. As to the manners and habits of 
the species, he has given us no information, except that it is rare, 
and remains only a few days in Pennsylvania. He says nothing 
of the female, and Vieillot never saw it. 
We regret that we are unacquainted with the form of its nest, 
and the peculiarity of its song. We can only state, that during 
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