Identifier: cu31924022517340 (find matches)
Title: The warblers of North America
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Wood warblers Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Adult c?. Spring.—Median frontal stripe yellow, rest of upperparts shiningjet black without olive markings; tail blackish two outerfeathers largely whiteon inner web apically, and on outer web, basally, third feather with whiteon inner web only, less in extent; wings edged with grayish the median covertsbroadly, the greater coverts more narrowly tipped with white; cheeks andline over eye yellow; a blackish line through eye from bill to nape; throatand upper breast black; sides heavily streaked with black, rest of underpartswhite. Adult c?. Fall.—Not seen, doubtless not materially different from adult c? inSpring. Young S, Fall.—Resembles adult $ in Spring but is more heavily streakedabove, the yellow of the sides of the head is brighter and more extended, thethroat and upper breast are black tipped with yellow or whitish. Young c?. Spring.—Similar to young <J in Fall but tips on black of throatand sides smaller or absent; upperparts with narrower greenish edgings. Plate XIV
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1. Black-throated Green Warbler, Acult Male. 2. Black-throated Green Warbler, Adult Female. 3. Black-throated Green Warbler, Young Female. (ONE- 4. Golden-cheeked Warbler, Adult Male. 5. Golden-cheeked Warbler, Adult Femal.e 6. GOLDEN-CHEEkED WaRBLER, YOUNG Femalz HALK NATURAL lilZE. GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER 163 Between this plumage in which the back is streaked with olive-green and thftblack of throat or breast tipped with yellowish or whitish and that in whichthe back and breast are solidly jet black, there is, in Spring specimens, everydegree of intergradation, probably in part due to individual variation, but itseems unlikely that the jet black back is acquired before the first post-breedingmolt. Adult S, Spring.—^Above olive-green, both crown and back streaked withblack; a partly concealed median frontal streak; a broad yellow line frombill over eye; cheeks and sides of neck yellow, a dusky transocular streak whichsometimes extends backward and upward to the nape; tail with less

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