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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Warbler (Fig Ad Crown bright yellow)

(Fig. 96.) Ad. 8. -Crown bright yellow; rest of the upper parts bluish gray, sometimes washed with greenish; a large black patch about the eye, separated from another on the throat by a white stripe; a white line over the eye; wings and tail bluish gray; tips of middle wing-coverts and outer webs of greater ones bright yellow, forming a large yellow patch on the wing; outer three tail-feathers with large white patches on their inner webs at the WOOD WARBLERS. tip, fourth feather with a smaller patch; lower breast and belly white; sides grayish. Ad. 2.-Similar, but the crown duller, the patch on the sides of the head and throat grayish instead of black. L., 5·10; W., 246; T., 1.94; B. from N., 34.

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