Color Key to North American Birds Part 56

[Ill.u.s.tration: 504.]

=504. Scott Oriole= (_Icterus parisorum_). L. 8; B. .95; _Ad._ [Male].

Lesser wing-coverts, base of tail, rump and belly yellow; rest of plumage black. _Ad._ [Female]. Yellowish below, olive-green above, two white wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Like female, but throat black.

_Notes._ See No. 507.

Range.--Mexican tableland, migrating north to western Texas, northern New Mexico, southern Nevada and southeastern California; winters in Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 505.]

=505. Hooded Oriole= (_Icterus cucullatus sennetti_). L. 8; B. .75.

_Ad._ [Male]. _Orange_; forehead, face, throat, foreback, wings and tail black; lesser wing-coverts and tips to greater ones white. _Ad._ [Female]. Yellowish below, brownish olive-green above, two white wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but throat black. _Notes._ See No. 507.

Range.--Mexico; migrating north to the Lower Rio Grande; winters in Mexico.

=505a. Arizona Hooded Oriole= (_I. c. nelsoni_). Similar to No. 505, but head, rump, etc. yellow instead of orange.

Range.--Northwestern Mexico and Lower California, migrating north to southwestern New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, west of Sierra Nevada; winters in Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 507.]

=507. Baltimore Oriole= (_Icterus galbula_). L. 7.5. _Ad._ [Male].

Throat, whole head, foreback, wings and middle tail-feathers black; breast, belly, rump, lesser wing-coverts and ends of outer tail-feathers orange; wing-coverts and tertials margined with white.

_Ad._ [Female]. Head and foreback olive-yellow spotted with black; rump and tail brownish yellow; below dull yellow, throat generally blackish. _Notes._ The notes of all the orange and black Orioles known to me are mellow, musical, querulous whistles generally given in detached fragments, all much alike in character but distinguishable when one becomes familiar with them.

Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains; breeds from Florida and eastern Texas north to New Brunswick and the Saskatchewan; winters in Central and South America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 508.]

=508. Bullock Oriole= (_Icterus bullocki_). L. 7.5. _Ad._ [Male].

_Cheeks_, most of underparts, forehead and line over eye orange; rump and outer tail-feathers yellower; center of throat, crown, foreback and middle tail-feathers black; a large white wing-patch. _Ad._ [Female]. Above olive grayish brown; below yellowish, belly whiter; tail olive-yellow; wings blackish, median coverts tipped, greater coverts externally margined with white; chin sometimes blackish.

_Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but center of throat and lores black.

_Notes._ See No. 507.

Range.--Western North America, from Mexico north to a.s.siniboia and British Columbia; east to western Texas; west to the Pacific; winters in Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 637.]

=637. Prothonotary Warbler= (_Protonotaria citrea_). L. 5.5.

Tail-feathers with large white areas. _Ad._ [Male]. Whole head and underparts orange-yellow; back greenish yellow; rump gray. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown greenish like back; yellow paler; belly whitish; less white in tail. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, metallic _c.h.i.n.k_; song, a "high pitched, penetrating and startling" "_peet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_." (Jones.)

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States north to Virginia, Ohio, and southern Minnesota; winters in the tropics.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 651.]

=651. Olive Warbler= (_Dendroica olivacea_). L. 5.2. _Ad._ [Male].

Head and breast orange brown, a black band through the eye; back olive-gray; belly grayish; wing-bars white; outer tail-feathers largely white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above olive-gray, head yellower; eye-band dusky; breast yellow; belly white. _Notes._ Song, a liquid _quirt quirt_, _quirt_, in a descending scale. (Price.)

Range.--Highlands of Guatemala and Mexico north to mountains of Arizona and New Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 662.]

=662. Blackburnian Warbler= (_Dendroica blackburniae_). L. 5.2. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat, line over eye, center of crown, and sides of neck bright orange; back black with a few whitish streaks; wing-bars broadly white; tail-spots white. _Ad._ [Female]. Yellow areas paler; above grayish streaked with blackish. _Yng. and Ad. in Winter._ Similar to Ad. [Male], but throat paler, back browner; wing with two distinct bars. _Notes._ Song, _wee-see-wee-see, tsee-tsee_, _tsee_, _tsee-tsee_, _tsee_, _tsee_, in an ascending scale, the last shrill and fine.

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England (and in Berkshire and Worcester counties, Ma.s.sachusetts), and northern Minnesota, north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region, (and south in Alleghanies to South Carolina); winters in tropics.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 687.]

=687. Redstart= (_Setophaga ruticilla_). L. 5.4. _Ad._ [Male]. Black; sides of breast, band in wings and in tail rich salmon. _Ad._ [Female]. Sides of breast, band in wings and in tail dull yellow; back olive-brown, crown gray; below whitish. _Yng._ [Male]. Intermediate between adults. _Notes._ Song, _ching_, _ching_, _chee_; _ser-wee_, _swee_, _swe-e-e_.

Range.--North America; rare on the Pacific coast; breeds from North Carolina, and Kansas north to Labrador and Alaska; winters in the West Indies, Central and South America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 748.]

=748. Golden-crowned Kinglet= (_Regulus satrapa_). L. 4.1. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown orange and yellow bordered by black; a whitish line over eye; back grayish olive-green; below soiled whitish. A blackish band in wing bordered basally by yellowish white. _Ad._ [Female]. No orange in crown, its whole center yellow. _Notes._ Call, a fine, high _ti-ti_; song, five or six fine, shrill high-pitched notes ending in a short, rapid, rather explosive warble, "_tzee_, _tzee_, _tzee_, _tzee_, _ti_, _ti_, _ter_, _ti-ti-ti_."

Range.--North America; breeds from northern United States northward, and southward along the Rockies into Mexico and in the Alleghanies to North Carolina; winters from about its southern breeding limit to the Gulf States and Mexico.

=748a. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet= (_R. s. olivaceus_). Similar to No. 748, but upperparts brighter olive-green; underparts with a brownish tinge.

Range.--Pacific coast region; breeds from the higher Sierra Nevada of California north to southern Alaska.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 666.]

=666. Golden-cheeked Warbler= (_Dendroica chrysoparia_). L. 5. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat, crown and _back_ black; cheeks and spot in forehead yellow; a narrow black line through eye; wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above olive green with _black streaks_; cheeks duller than in [Male], eye-streak dusky; throat yellow, breast blackish; belly _white_. _Notes._ Song, _tser_, _weasy-weasy_, _twea_, resembling song of No. 667. (Nehrling.)

Range.--Western central and southern Texas and south through eastern Mexico to highlands of Guatemala. (Ridgway.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 667.]

=667. Black-throated Green Warbler= (_Dendroica virens_). L. 5.

_Ad._ [Male]. Throat and breast black; cheeks greenish yellow; back olive-green; wing-bars and tail patches white. _Ad._ [Female] and _Yng._ [Male]. Similar, but throat yellowish; black breast tipped with yellowish; _belly tinged with yellow_; back _without_ black _streaks_.

_Yng._ [Female]. Throat and breast yellowish white, little or no black. _Notes._ Song, a droning _z??_, _z??_, _z?-??'_, _z??_.

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Connecticut and northern Illinois north to Nova Scotia and Hudson Bay, and south in Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters in Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 668.]

=668. Townsend Warbler= (Dendroica townsendi). L. 5.1. _Ad._ [Male].

A black eye-patch bordered by yellow stripes; crown and throat black; back olive-green spotted with black; wing-bars and tail-patches white.

_Ad._ [Female]. Eye-patch olive; throat yellow, indistinctly blackish; crown and back olive-green, with few black streaks. _Yng._ Similar, but yellower. _Notes._ Song, _de-de_, _de-de_, _de_, like that of No. 667. (Merrill.)

Range.--Western North America; breeds from mountains of southern California north to Alaska, east to western Colorado; in migrations to western Texas; winters in Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 669.]

=669. Hermit Warbler= (_Dendroica occidentalis_). L. 5.1. Underparts _without_ streaks. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and cheeks yellow; throat black; back gray spotted with black; wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown less yellow; throat yellowish; back olive-gray, usually without spots. _Yng._ [Female]. Similar, but yellower. _Yng._ [Male]. Throat dusky; forehead and cheeks yellow; back olive-green with concealed black spots. Much like Yng of No. 667, but forehead yellower, no streaks below. _Notes._ Song, _zeegle-zeegle-zeegle-zeek_. (Barlow.)