142 BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



Dendroica maculosa (Linn.) 



MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 

 Popular synonym. Black and Yellow Warbler. 



Motacilla maculosa GM. 8. N. i. 1788. 984. 

 Sylvia maculosa LATH. AUD. Orn. Biog. i, 1831, 260; ii, 1834, 145; v. 1839, 458, pis. 50. 123. 



NUTT. Man. i, 1832, 370. 

 Sylricola maculosa Sw. & RICH. P. B. A. ii, 1831, 213, pi. 40. AUD. Synop. 1839, 61: B. Am. 



ii, 1841,65, pi. 9G. 

 Dendroica maculosa BATED, B. N. Am. 1858, 284; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 204; Review, 



1865, 206. B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. i, 1874, 232, pi. 14, flg. 2. 

 Dendrceca maculosa SCL. COUES, Key, 1872. 102; Check List, 1873, No. 84; 2d ed. 1882, No. 



125; B. N. W. 1874, 62; B. Col. Val. 1878, 290. RIDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 97. 

 Sylvia magnolia WILS. Am. Orn. iii, 1811, C3, pi. 23. 



HAB. Eastern North America, west to eastern base of Rocky Mountains: breeds from 

 northern New England northward, and winters in Bahamas, Cuba (rare), eastern Mexico, 

 and Central America to Panama. 



"Sr. CHAK. Male in spring. Bill dark bluish black, rather lighter beneath. Tail duj-ky. 

 Top of head light grayish blue. Front, lores, cheeks, and a stripe under the eye, clack, 

 running into a large triangular patch on the back between the wings, which is also black. 

 Eye'iids and a stripe from the eye along the side of head white. Upper tail-coverts black, 

 someof the feathers tipped with grayish. Abdomenandlowertail-covertswhite. Rump and 

 under parts, except as described, yellow. Lower throat, breast, and sides streaked with 

 black; the streaks closer on the lower throat and fore breast. Lesser wing-coverts, and 

 edges of the wing and tail, bluish gray, the former spotted with black. Quills and tail 

 almost black; the latter with a square patch of white on the inner webs of all the tail 

 feathers (but the two inner) beyond the middle of the tail. Two white bands across the 

 wings (sometimes coalesced into one) formed by the middle and secondary coverts. Part 

 of the edge of the inner webs of the quills white. Feathers margining the black patch on 

 the back behind and on the sides tinged with greenish. Length, 5 inches; wing, 2 5"; tail, 

 2.25. Autumnal males differ in absence of black of back, front, sides of head, and to a 

 considerable degree beneath, and in much less white on the wings, and head. 



"Female in spring. Similar, but all the colors duller. Black of the back restricted to a 

 central triangular patch." (Hist. N. Am. B.) 



The Magnolia Warbler, probably the most showy of the Dendroica, 

 is an abundant species during its migrations, but does not breed 

 within the limits of the State. It is one of the most agile of its 

 tribe, its quick and restless movements being more like those of the 

 Eedstart than those of its nearest kindred. The tail is carried 

 somewhat elevated and widely expanded, to display the broad white 

 band across the middle portion of the inner webs of the feathers, 

 which, together with the bold contrasts of black, yellow, and blue- 

 gray of the plumage, render it both conspicuous and beautiful. 



Dendroica cserulea (Linn.) 



CERULEAN WARBLER. 

 Popular synonyms. Blue Warbler; White-throated Blue Warbler; Azure Warbler. 



Sylvia ccerulea WILS. Am. Orn. ii, 1810, 141, pi. 17, flg. 5. 

 fiylvicola ccerulea RICH. AUD. Synop. 1839, 56; B. Am. ii, 1841, 45, pi. 86. 

 Dendroica ccerulea BATED, B. N. Am. 1858, 280; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 201; Review, 1865, 

 191. B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. i, 1874, 235, pi. 13, figs. 10, 11. 



