Plate CXIX. Male.
Upper parts light green, the rump, scapulars, and smaller wing-coverts
bluish-grey; quills and coverts brownish-black; two bands of white on
the wing, formed by the tips of the secondary coverts and first row of
small coverts; primaries narrower, edged with yellowish-green,
secondaries broadly with white; tail-feathers brownish-black, the
outer edged with white; sides of the neck yellowish-green; a line over
the eye, throat, and breast yellow, the rest of the lower parts white.
_Male_, 5-3/4, 9-1/2.
From Texas to Nova Scotia. Rare in the interior, more abundant in the
middle Atlantic districts. Migratory.
Yellow-throated Flycatcher, Muscicapa sylvicola, Wils. Amer.
Orn. v. ii. p. 117.
Vireo flavifrons, Bonap. Syn. p. 70.
Yellow-throated Vireo, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 302.
Yellow-throated Flycatcher or Vireo, Vireo flavifrons, Aud.
Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 119; v. v. p. 428.