. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 100 SYLVICOLIDVE, WA1!HLE1!8.—(iKN. 35. iissofiiitinsr witli troops of spiirrows. , ii, 138, pi. 17, f. 4; ])1. If), f. ;5; Nl-tt., i, ."{(il; Am., ii, 23, \\; Ud., 272; Rev., 187. couoxata. Auduhoii'x WavhJer. Witii a gcnoral rcscMiiMancc to the lust, Imt tliroiit i/i'l/oii\ not white; cycliils wliito, but no wliito siiperciliiiiy


. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 100 SYLVICOLIDVE, WA1!HLE1!8.—(iKN. 35. iissofiiitinsr witli troops of spiirrows. , ii, 138, pi. 17, f. 4; ])1. If), f. ;5; Nl-tt., i, ."{(il; Am., ii, 23, \\; Ud., 272; Rev., 187. couoxata. Auduhoii'x WavhJer. Witii a gcnoral rcscMiiMancc to the lust, Imt tliroiit i/i'l/oii\ not white; cycliils wliito, but no wliito siiperciliiiiy lino; ciiccks iin/ (Icliiiitcly hliick ; \viii!)., 273; Coor., 88. . aldlhonh. JiJdckhitfinan Warbler. Ih'udoch Wmhhr. $ in spring: back blaek, more or less interrupted with yellowish; crown blaek, with a central orange spot; a broad iilaek stripe through eye, enclosing the orange under eyelid; rest of head, with whole throat, most brilliant orange, or llanie color; other under parts whitish, more or less tinged with yellow, and sides streaked with black ; wing-bars fused into a large white patch ; tail- blotches occui)3-ing nearly all the outer feathers; bill and feet dark. 9 and young (( : upper parts and crown olive and black, streaked (much like adult 9 and young t<(ria/(i, but is smaller, with more black, and usually a yellow trace on the crown) ; sii))erciliary line and throat clear yellow (pale for this species, but as rich as is usual for adults of the various yellow- throated species), fading insensil)ly on the breast; lower eyelid yellow, con- fined in the dusky ear-patch; sides streaked much as in the adult; wing- patch resolved into two bars; tail-blotches nearly as extensive as in the adult, the outer feathers showing white on the oufcr webs .at base (t/n'.t is a xtroiKj fculure). Eastern United States, abundant in woodland; the loveli- est of the warblers; none can compare with the exiiuisite hue of the throat. <S'. parns, Wils., v, 114, i)l. 44, f. 3; NuT


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