Plate CCCXCIII. Fig. 1. Male.
Wings of moderate length, rather pointed, with the second and third
quills longest, the first and second nearly equal and very little
shorter; tail scarcely emarginate. Upper parts light greenish-olive,
more yellow behind, all the feathers dusky in the centre; cheeks,
ear-coverts, and throat black; a band over the eye, a broader band on
the side of the neck, and the fore part of the breast bright yellow;
the rest of the lower parts white, but the sides marked with oblong
dusky spots; wings blackish-brown; the secondary coverts and first row
of small coverts largely tipped with white, the quills margined with
light grey; tail-feathers blackish-brown, edged with grey; outer two
on each side almost entirely white, the next with a small white spot.
_Male_, 4-10/12, wing 2-8/12.
Columbia River, northward. Migratory.
Sylvia Townsendi, Townsend's Warbler, Towns. Journ. Acad. Nat.
Sc. Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 191.
Townsend's Warbler, Sylvia Townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
36.