. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . cks of numer-ous enemies, the opening or entrance is neither made on BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 427 the top nor the side, but at the bottom; nor is the accessdirect, for after passing the vestibule, it is necessary to goover a kind of partition, and through another aperture,before it descends into the guarded abode of its eggs andyoung. This interior lodgment is round and soft, beinglined with a kind of lichen, or the silky down of plants.* This species is about 5£ inches in length, and 8 in alar
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . cks of numer-ous enemies, the opening or entrance is neither made on BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 427 the top nor the side, but at the bottom; nor is the accessdirect, for after passing the vestibule, it is necessary to goover a kind of partition, and through another aperture,before it descends into the guarded abode of its eggs andyoung. This interior lodgment is round and soft, beinglined with a kind of lichen, or the silky down of plants.* This species is about 5£ inches in length, and 8 in alar emarginate, black, edged with grey ; wings black, the first rowof wing-coverts edged and tipped with white, the second row almostwholly white. Line between the eye and nostril, whole throat andmiddle of the breast, yellow ; the lower eye-lid, line over the eye, andspot behind the ear-feathers, as well as the whole lower parts, purewhite; the yellow on the throat bordered with touches of black,which also extend on the sides under the wings. Bill black. Legsyellowish-brown. •a. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. (Sylvicolavirens, Swains. & . Latham. Wilson, ii. p. 137. pi. 17. fig. 3. An. pi. 399. 70. Greeo Warbler, Pen-> wrs Arct. Zoology, vol. ii. No. -J * A v, n diffi rent neat, that of the Wood Pewee. is attributed to tinsspecies by Audubon, whoak white, with a few purple dots at the large end. 428 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. Spec. Charact. —Yellowish-green ; front, cheeks, sides of the neck,and line over the eye, yellow; beneath whitish; chin and throatto the breast black ; 2 white bars on the wings, which, as well asthe tail, are dusky; the 3 lateral tail-feathers marked with white.— Female with the chin yellow, and the throat blackish, tingedwith yellow. Tins rather rare species arrives from its tropical winter-quarters in Pennsylvania towards the close of April orbeginning of May. About the 12th of the latter month itis seen in this part of Massachusetts ; but
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