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FEMALE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
SYLVIA CHRYSOPTERA. 
Plate I. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology , II, p. 113, PL 15, fig. 5, for the Male. 
Motacilla chrysoptera , Linn. Syst. I, p. 333, Sp. 20. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 971, Sp. 20, (Male.) 
Sylvia chrysoptera , Lath. Ind. p. 541, Sp. 123. Vieill. Ois. de TAm. Sept. II, p. 37, 
PI. 97, (Male.) 
Motacilla flavifrons , Gmel. Syst. I, p. 976, Sp. 126, (Male.) 
Sylvia flavifrons , Lath. Ind. p. 527, Sp. 69, (Male.) 
Ficedula Pensylvanica cinerea gutturenigro , Brisson, Av. Suppl. p. 109, Sp. 80, (Male.) 
Figuier aux ailes dorees , Buff. Ois. V, p. 311, (Male.) 
Golden-winged Flycatcher , Edwards, Glean. II, 189, PI. 299, (Male.) 
Gold-winged Warbler , Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 295. Lath. Syn. II, Part II, p. 492, 
Sp. 118, (Male.) 
Yellow-fronted Warbler , Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 296. Lath. Syn. II, Part II, p. 461, 
Sp. 67, (Male.) 
Parus alis aureis, the Golden-winged Flycatcher , Bartram, Trav. p. 292, (Male.) 
Philadelphia Museum , No. 7010, Male; No. 7011, Female. 
The female of this pretty little Warbler, hitherto unknown to 
any naturalist, is now figured and described for the first time. 
For the opportunity of presenting it to the reader, we are indebted 
to Mr. Titian Peale, who shot it on the twenty-fourth of May, 
near Camden, New-Jersey; and, with his usual kindness, and 
zeal for Natural History, communicated it to us for this work. 
This little Warbler differs so materially from its mate, as to 
require a distinct figure and description, in order to be recognized; 
yet we cannot fail to perceive a kind of family resemblance between 
the sexes; and, by comparing the two descriptions and accompa¬ 
nying figures, our readers will agree with us that they are but one 
