. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. m i • I 290 IJJIiJJS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Dendroica townsendi (Nutt.), Townseiid's Warbler. Descriptiok. ''iSpring, male.—Above bright olive-green , the leathers all black in the cen- ter, showing more or less as streaks, especially on the crown, where the black predominates. Quills, tail and upper tail-covert feathers dark-brown, edged with bluish-graj^; the wings with two white bands on the coverts; the two outer tail- feathers white with a brow n streak nea
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. m i • I 290 IJJIiJJS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Dendroica townsendi (Nutt.), Townseiid's Warbler. Descriptiok. ''iSpring, male.—Above bright olive-green , the leathers all black in the cen- ter, showing more or less as streaks, especially on the crown, where the black predominates. Quills, tail and upper tail-covert feathers dark-brown, edged with bluish-graj^; the wings with two white bands on the coverts; the two outer tail- feathers white with a brow n streak near the end ; a white streak only in the end of the third feather. Under parts as far as the middle of the body, with the sides of head and neck, including a superciliary stripe and a spot beneath the eye, yellow . the median portion of the side of the head, the chin and throat, with streaks on the sides of the breast, flanks and under tail-coverts, black ; the remainder of under parts white. Length 5 inches ; wing ; tail " Spring, /e/n«/c.—Reseml>ling the male, but the black patch on the throat replaced by irregular blotches upoii a pure yellow ;—(^. N. Ain. B.) Habilaf.—WeHtern North America, east during migrations to western Colorado, north to Sitka, south to Mexico, and in winter to Guatemala. Accidental near Phila- delphia (Chester county). Accidental. An adult male of this decidedly western species, was shot by Mr. C. 1). Wood, of Philadelphia, May 12, 1868, in an apple orchard, near Coatesville, Chester county. The specimen was sold ($40) to Dr. Turnbull, and after his death was purchased by Barney Hoopes, Esq., of Philadelphia, who subsequently disposed of it to the late John Krider, of Philadelphia. Dendroica kirtlandi Baird. Kirtlanil'H Warbler. Description. '*Male; upper parts slaty-blue ; crown and back streaked with black; lores and frontlet black ; eyelids mostly white. Under parts clear yellow, whitening on cris- sum,
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