. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . nce of those drearysolitudes. The present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of theWarblers, that approach the Flycatchers, darting after flies wherever theysec them, and also searching with great activity among the leaves. Its songwas a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. This species is four inches and three-quarters in length; the upper partsa rich yellow-olive; front, cheeks, and chin yellow; also the sides of theneck; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky; vent
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . nce of those drearysolitudes. The present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of theWarblers, that approach the Flycatchers, darting after flies wherever theysec them, and also searching with great activity among the leaves. Its songwas a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. This species is four inches and three-quarters in length; the upper partsa rich yellow-olive; front, cheeks, and chin yellow; also the sides of theneck; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky; vent plainpale yellow; wings black; first and second row of coverts broadly tippedwith pale yellowish-white, tertials the same; the rest of the quills edged witliwhitish; tail black, handsomely rounded, edged with pale olive; the twoexterior feathers on each side white on the inner vanes from the middle tothe tips, and edged on the outer side with white; bill dark brown, legs andfeet purple-brown; soles yellow; eye dark hazel. This was a male. The female I have never seen. N°2 0 PI. 9 9. ^h^pft^<:^^c^
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