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above, rump olive yeliuw, under parts yellowish-white; breast and sides with the 
streaks obscure or obsolete ; little or no white on wings, which are edged with yellow- 
ish; tail-spots very small. Length 5-2; wing 225 tail 24. 
Habitat, Eastern United States and British America to Hadson’s Bay; west to the 
Mississippi. West Indies. 
Rare spring and fall migrant in May and September. But little can 
be said of the Cape May Warbler in this State. Dr. Kirtland observed 
it picking insects from cherry blossoms. I have taken it on two occa- 
sions only. In May a female was secured while on the ground in a grove 
of sycamore trees on the banks of the Scioto, and in September a young 
male was taken while feeding in low trees on the river bank. Both 
were solitary birds. I have seen specimens from Sandusky. 
No North American examples of the nest and eggs are described. 
Prof. Baird makes this species the type of a new genus, Persssoglossa, 
the distinguishing characters of which are the slender, acute, and obso- 
letely notched bill, with its commissure gently arched or curved from 
the base; the tongue lengthened, narrow, deeply bifid, and deeply lacer- 
ated or fringed externally at the end; the edge, along the median por- 
tion, folded over on the upper surface, but not adherent. 
DENDR@CA DiIscoLtor (V.) Ba. 
Prairie Warbler. 
Sylvicola discolor, AUDUBON, B. Am., ii, 1841, 68.—ReaD, F.m. Vis., ili, 1853, 4233 Proc. 
Philad. Acad. Nat. Sei, vi, 1853, 395. 
Dendroica discolor, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep for 1860, 364; Reprint, 1861, 6. 
Dendreca discolor, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. tor 1874, 564; Re- 
print, 1875, 4.—Lanepon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soe. 
Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 172; Reprint, 6. 
Sylvia discolor, ViRILLOT, Orn. Am. Sept., iii, 1807, 37. 
Sylvicola discolor, JARDINE, ‘‘ Ed. Wilson, 1832.” 
Dendroica discolor, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 290. 
Dendreca discolor, A. and E. NEwron, Ibis, i, 1859, 144. 
Yellow-olive; back with a patch of brick red spots; forehead, superciliary line, two 
wing-bars and entire under parts, rich yellow ; a V-shaped black mark on side of head, 
its upper arm ranning through the eye, its lower arm connecting with a series of black 
streaks along the whole sides of the neck and body ; tail blotches very large, occupying 
most of the inner web of the outer feathers. The sexes are almost exactly alike, and 
the young only differ in not being so bright, and in having the dorsal patch and head- 
markings obscure. Size small, 48-5; wing 21; tai} 2. 
Habitat, Eastern United States north to New England; west to Kaneas. West Jo- 
dies. 
Rare spring and fall migrant in Southern and Middle Ohio. Summer 
resident in Northern Ohio. Audubon gives Lake Erie as the northern 
