. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. DENDROICA. 493 11 throat, chost, and sides streaked with blaclt; back olive-greenish; a white patch on wings, covering middle and greater coverts. (/;t autumn, markings much obscured by grayish and olive suffusion.) Adult female: Grayish olive above, binghter on rump, the wing-coverts merely edged with whitish ; beneath dull yellowish M'hito (sometimes deeper yellow- ish), streaked on chest, etc., with dusky; white tail-spots much re- stricted. Length , wing , tail Nest a very neat cup
. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. DENDROICA. 493 11 throat, chost, and sides streaked with blaclt; back olive-greenish; a white patch on wings, covering middle and greater coverts. (/;t autumn, markings much obscured by grayish and olive suffusion.) Adult female: Grayish olive above, binghter on rump, the wing-coverts merely edged with whitish ; beneath dull yellowish M'hito (sometimes deeper yellow- ish), streaked on chest, etc., with dusky; white tail-spots much re- stricted. Length , wing , tail Nest a very neat cup- shaped structure, about deep and across outside, with cavity deep by wide, composed of dried spruce twigs, grasses, spiders' webs, etc.; placed in evergreen trees or bushes, usually not far from ground. Eggs 3-4, .70 X -52, dull white, buify white, or grayish white, speckled or spotted round larger end with dark brown or reddish bi'own and lilac-gray, occasionally mixed with a few smaller markings of black- ish. Hah. Eastern North America, north to Hudson's Bay, Lake Win- nipeg, etc., breeding from noi-thei'n New England northward (also in mountains of Jamaica); winters in Greater Antilles. 650. D. tigrina (Gmel.). Cape May Warbler. b*. Inner wf^bs of tail-feathers Avithout white spots. Adult male: Whole top of head and broad streak on side of head black ; back and lesser wing- co\ ^ .'ts dusky olive spotted or broadly streaked with black; middle wing-coverts tipped with j'ellow, greater coverts with white; rump, upper tail-covei"ts, and tail yellowish olive-green ; rest of plumage gam- boge-yellow, tinged with dusky olive on sides, the sides of chest, etc., streaked with black; length , culmen .45, tarsus .75. Hab. Ken- tucky (Henderson; known only fi'om Audubon's plate and descrip- tion) —. D. carbonata (AuD.). Carbonated Warbler. a*. Bill not very acute nor distinctly decui-ved at tip; tongue gradually tapei-ing to the slightly cleft and frin
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