Plate XXXIV. Male and Female.
Bill nearly as long as the head, less compressed than in the last;
wings rather long, second quill longest, first and third equal; tail
very slightly rounded. Upper parts light olive-green; head and lower
parts pale brownish-yellow, the former with four longitudinal black
bands; throat and abdomen nearly white.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 8-1/2.
From Texas northwards, and in the interior to the Missouri. Not very
abundant. Migratory.
Worm-eating Warbler, Sylvia vermivora, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iii. p. 74.
Sylvia vermivora, Bonap. Syn. p. 86.
Worm-eating Warbler, Sylvia vermivora, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 177; v. v. p. 460.