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Rh brown, tinged with yellow. The upper parts are yellowish-green, spotted with brownish-black. The head yellow. The quills and their coverts brownish-black, margined with yellowish-green. The outer maro-in of the inner secondary quills, and the ends of the secondary coverts and first row of small coverts, white. Tail-feathers brownish-black, edged exter- nally with yellowish-green ; the three outer on each side white, with the shafts and a broadish line at the end black. A yellow band passes over the eye; cheeks greenish; throat, fore neck, and breast, rich yellow, which gradually fades posteriorly ; the sides streaked with blackish-brown.

Length 5^ inches, extent of wings 8^ ; bill along the back j%, along the edge j'^g ; tarsus ^.

Adult Female. Plate CXXXIV. Fig. 2.

The Female resembles the male, but is rather paler.

This is a low shrubby tree, which does not attain a greater height at most than fifteen or twenty feet. It abounds along the rocky margins of creeks or rivers, especially those meandering at the bases of the Alleghany Mountains.