"M. with gray crown , black face mask, and bold white eyebrow behind eye; underparts bright yellow with heavy black streaking, sometimes forming a necklacelike band on upper breast; broad white wingbars joined as a patch; black back; yellow rump; white undertail coverts ...." (Donald & Lillian Stokes. The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, p. 604.)

"Common in coniferous forests, especially dense, second-growth stands ... Small and relatively long-tailed; tail often raised and fanned, showing off unique pattern ..." (David Allen Sibley. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, p. 335)

"Uncommon to locally common migrant in the eastern half of the state." (Mark W. Lockwood & Brush Freeman. The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, p. 172)

Picture taken with a Nikon D300 using a Nikon 400mm f/5.6

May 10, 2013.