Plate CCCXCV. Fig. 3. Male. Fig. 4. Female.
Wings of moderate length, the outer three quills almost equal, the
third longest; tail slightly emarginate. Male with the upper parts
bluish-grey, spotted with black; the upper part of the head, which is
similarly spotted, the cheeks, and sides of the neck, bright yellow;
throat black; breast and abdomen white; ground and tail-feathers
greyish-dusky; two white bands on the wing formed by the tips of the
secondary coverts and first row of small coverts; two outer
tail-feathers on each side almost entirely white. Female with the
upper parts of a duller grey, the yellow of the head less extended and
not so bright; throat whitish, spotted with dusky.
_Male_, 3-5/12, wing 2-8/12.
Columbia River. Migratory.
Sylvicola occidentalis, Hermit Wood-Warbler, Towns. Journ.
Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 190.
Hermit Warbler, Sylvia occidentalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
55.