Plate CCCCXIV. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Bill slightly shorter than the head, tapering to an acute point; wings
with the second and third quills equal and longest, the fourth and
first about equal; tail even. Male light ash-grey above, greyish-white
beneath; upper part of head, and a patch on the wing, formed by the
first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts, bright yellow; a
band from the bill to the eye, continued under it, and including the
ear-coverts, black, as is the throat; a white band from the upper
mandible over the eye, and another from the lower mandible down the
neck. Female with the tints less bright, the back tinged with green,
the side of the head and the throat grey, and the white bands on the
head narrower and less extended.
_Male_, 5-1/4, 7-5/8. _Female_, 5, 7-1/4.
From Texas to Nova Scotia. In the interior to Kentucky. Rather rare.
Migratory.
Golden-winged Warbler, Sylvia chrysoptera, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. p. 113.
Sylvia chrysoptera, Bonap. Syn. p. 87.
Golden-winged Warbler, Sylvia chrysoptera, Nutt. Man. v. i. p.
411.
Golden-winged Warbler, Sylvia chrysoptera, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 154.