Plate XCV. Male. Plate XXXV. Young Male and Female.
Outer four quills nearly equal, second longest; tail emarginate. Male
with the upper parts pale yellowish-green, the rump greenish-yellow,
the fore part of the head, cheeks, throat, sides of the neck and lower
parts pure yellow, the breast and sides streaked with brownish-red;
feathers of the wings deep brown, primaries margined with
yellowish-green, secondaries, their coverts, and the first row of
small coverts with yellow; tail-feathers brown, with the greater part
of the inner webs and a portion of the outer yellow, excepting the
middle two. Female similar, but with the colours less bright, and the
streaks on the breast and sides obsolete. Young with the upper parts
yellowish-green, tinged with brown, forehead, sides of head, and lower
parts deep yellow.
_Male_, 4-3/4, 8.
From Texas northward, and throughout the interior. Abundant.
Migratory.
Blue-eyed Warbler, Sylvia citrinella, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ii.
p. 111.
Sylvia æstiva, Bonap. Syn. p. 83.
Yellow-poll Warbler, Sylvia æstiva, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
476. Adult Male.
Children's Warbler, Sylvia Childrenii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 180. Young.