. A general history of birds . the vent; wings black,on the middle of the coverts white, passing down the inner secondquills, which are white, forming a broad oblique white streak ;the four middle tail feathers black, the others white, shape nearlyeven at the end; the wings reach to the base ; legs black. A specimen of this last in the collection of Lord Stanley, andfrom which our figure is taken.—See pi. cvii.* 276.—GREY WARBLER. Tanagra grisea, Ind. Orn. i. 428. Gm. Lin. i. 892. Le Gris-olive, Buf. iv. 277. PI. enl. 714. 1. Grey Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 236. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 239. SIZE of t
. A general history of birds . the vent; wings black,on the middle of the coverts white, passing down the inner secondquills, which are white, forming a broad oblique white streak ;the four middle tail feathers black, the others white, shape nearlyeven at the end; the wings reach to the base ; legs black. A specimen of this last in the collection of Lord Stanley, andfrom which our figure is taken.—See pi. cvii.* 276.—GREY WARBLER. Tanagra grisea, Ind. Orn. i. 428. Gm. Lin. i. 892. Le Gris-olive, Buf. iv. 277. PI. enl. 714. 1. Grey Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 236. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 239. SIZE of the White Throat; length five inches. Bill black ;forehead and between the eyes grey; plumage above greyish olive,beneath grey; quills and tail darker; legs dusky brown. Inhabits Guiana; also found in Louisiana. 277.—YELLOW-FRONTED WARBLER. Vireo flavifrons, Vieill. Am. i. p. 85. pi. 54. LENGTH four inches eight lines. Bill and legs black; generalcolour of the plumage yellow green on the head and upper parts of pl. cvii:. ±2$0aa/s //}<»; WARBLER. 209 the body, the forehead, and sides round the eye, throat, breast, andbelly, yellow; tips of the wing coverts, and lower belly white; outertail feather white on the outer web. Found about New York, and other parts of North America, insummer, departing in autumn.—M. Vieillot supposes this to be themale of the Grey, or last Species. 278—RUFOUS AND WHITE WARBLER. Le Roux et blanc, Voy. d yAzara, iii. No. 231. LENGTH six inches and a half, breadth seven. Bill straight,compressed, black, beneath blue; head and all above brown; butthe back, rump, and wing coverts incline to rufous; quills duskybrown, with a crimson spot, occupying two-thirds of the breadth ofthe web, near the base, but not seen on the four outer ones; tailmuch cuneiform, the two outer feathers shorter than the middle onesby two lines ; the latter are deep brown, the others crimson ; throatyellow; the under parts of the body dirty white ; sides and underwing c
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