. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . , but becomes thin, horny and ipiite suddenly acuminate Tiic end is ciliated butnot as much as in D. pinus, the fringes not being as long or as niucli extended along tlie sides. Color. Aduit male in spring. Above, slaty, with an olivace>ius tinge, and streaked with black. Tupof head, black. Wings, dark brown, edged with olivaceous which becomes whitish on inner secondaiies


. The birds of eastern North America : with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc. , . , but becomes thin, horny and ipiite suddenly acuminate Tiic end is ciliated butnot as much as in D. pinus, the fringes not being as long or as niucli extended along tlie sides. Color. Aduit male in spring. Above, slaty, with an olivace>ius tinge, and streaked with black. Tupof head, black. Wings, dark brown, edged with olivaceous which becomes whitish on inner ])er wing coverts, black, edged all around with asliy, tijiyted with white, forming two bars, Tail darkbrown, with the two pan-s of outer feathers spotted terminally on the inner webs with wiiite. The spot onthe outer feather occupies about one-third of its length, that on the central about one-half as much as this ;neither touch the vein and both arc encroached upon basally by a triangle nf the dark area. (Sec Fig- 88.). 584 BLACK-P()LLED WAIUILEI!.. Fig. 88. Head of Adult Warbler and outer tailfeather in spring. All the tail feathers are also more or less edged with white on the inner, and with slaty on the outer of liead and lower portions of body, incduding under tail c ivei-ts and under wing , white, with black maxillary sti-ipes. 8i les an 1 well streaked wit!iblack. Adult female in spring, like the male in general tup of the head is olivaceous, streaked with black. J here isa greater suftusion of olivaceous over the back, feuer s]iits be-neath, wdiere the wdiite is tinged with buft. Ad\dt male in au-tumn, somewdiat similar to the female in spring, but the tip ifthe head has fewer streaks, there are also nnt as many blackstripes beneath. The autumnal female resembles the male, buthas the top of the head unspotted. The young of both inautumn are olivaceous green above, streaked on the back and some-times


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