. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 1 108 STLVICOLID^, WAEBLEES. GEN. 39. has white eyelids. Eocky Mountains to the Pacific, U. S., and southward. One of the most abundant warblers in the mountains of Coloi-ado, and common elsewhere in the West. Trichas tohniei Nutt., 2d ed. i, 460; AuD., ii, 74, pi. 100; Bd., 248; Coop., 96 macgillivkati. Subfamily ICTERIIN^. Chats. A small grou
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 1 108 STLVICOLID^, WAEBLEES. GEN. 39. has white eyelids. Eocky Mountains to the Pacific, U. S., and southward. One of the most abundant warblers in the mountains of Coloi-ado, and common elsewhere in the West. Trichas tohniei Nutt., 2d ed. i, 460; AuD., ii, 74, pi. 100; Bd., 248; Coop., 96 macgillivkati. Subfamily ICTERIIN^. Chats. A small group, recently framed to accommodate the following genus and its two tropical allies ; it is perhaps questionable whether they are most naturally classed with the Warblers. Icteria shows the following points :— Larger than any other Sylvicolidce; bill short, stout, compressed, culmen and commissure both curved, tip unnotched, rictus unbristled ; wings much rounded, shorter or at most not longer than the tail. Sexes alike. Probably contains but one species. 0D 39. Genus ICTERIA Vieillot. Yellow-breasted Chat. Bright olive green, below golden yellow, belly abruptly' white; lore black, isolating the white under eyelid from a white superciliary line above and a short white maxillary line below ; wings and tail unmarked, glossed with olive; bill and feet blue-black ; 7-7 J ; wing about 3 ; tail about 3^. Eastern United States, north to Massa- chusetts, abundant; an exclusive inhabitant of low tangled undergrowth, and oftener heard than seen, except during the mating season, when it performs the extravagant aerial evolu- tions for which, as well as for the variety and volubility of its song, it is noted. Nest in a crotch of a bush near the ground: eggs 4-5, white, speckled with reddish brown. Pipra polyglotta WiLS., i, 90 pi. 6, f. 2; Icteria viridis Nutt., i, 299 : Aud. Orn. Biog. ii, 223, V, 433, pi. 137 ; Bd., 248,; Icteria virensBD., Eev. 228. virens. Var. LOKGiCAUDA. Long-tailed
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