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Title: The warblers of North America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Wood warblers Birds
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ne). Northern Parula Warbler COMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA USNE^ (Brewst.) Plate VIII Distinguishing Characters.—General color above bluish, center of back yel-lowish; two conspicuous white wing-bars. Length (skin), 4.00; wing, 2.40;tail, 1.65; bill, .38. Adult c?. Spring.—Upperparts grayish blue, center of back yellowish green;lores black, eye-ring with a white spot above and another below the eye; tailedged with bluish, outer two or three feathers with a white patch on the innerweb near the tip; wings edged with bluish, median and greater coverts broadlytipped with white; sides of the throat grayish blue mlich restricting the brown-tinged yellow of chin and upper throat, lower throat with a more or less well-defined band of bluish black often tinged with brownish and tipped with yellow,this bordered posteriorly by a less well-defined brown, yellow-tipped area which,in turn, is bordered by clear yellow; belly white the sides grayish, often withmore or less brownish chestnut. Plate VIII
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1. Parula Warbler, Adult Male. 3. Parula Warbler, Adult Female 2. Parula Warbler, Young Female. 4. S^nnetts Warbler, Adult Male. 5. Sennetts Warbler, Adult Female.(one-half natural size.) PARULA WARBLER 105 Adult c?j Fall.—Similar to adult c? in Spring but blue areas more or lesstipped with greenish, the throat bands with yellow; more white about the eyesand lores. Young ^, Fo//.—Similar to adult <? in Fall but with the blue areas stillmore heavily tipped with greenish, the blackish throat band less pronounced orabsent. Adult 2, Spring.—Similar to adult cf in Spring but blue areas duller andwith more or less greenish wash; blackish thrOat-band usually absent, brownbreast-band much reduced, paler, or absent; sides grayish usually without chest-nut. Adult 5, FaH.—Similar to adult $ in Spring but blue areas greener, thebreast with still less brown. Young 5, FoW.—Similar to adult $ in Fall but with no brown on breast. Nestling.—Above brownish gray with a tinge of green; bel

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