Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Bler (Ad Upper parts bright)

Ad. .-Upper parts bright olive-green. back sometimes spotted with black; line over the eye and cheeks bright yellow, ear-coverts dusky; two white wing-bars; inner vanes of outer tail-feathers entirely white, outer web white at the base; throat and breast black; belly white, sometimes tinged with yellow; sides streaked with black. Ad. .-Similar, but the black of WOOD WARBLERS. throat and breast more or less mixed with yellowish. Im. - Similar to the 9, but with more yellow on the throat, the black sometimes being almost entirely hidden or wanting. L., 5·10; W., 2.46; T., 1.99; B. from N., 25.

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