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Dendroica coronata (Linnaeus) 

 Myrtle Warbler 



Plate 94 



Motacilla coronata Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 1766. 1:333 

 Sylvicola coronata DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 88, fig. 103 

 Dendroica coronata A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 19 10. p. 312. No. 655 



coronata, Lat., crowned 



Description. Adult male: A yellow patch on the center of the crown, 

 on the rump and on each side of the breast; upper parts bluish gray streaked, 

 with black; cheeks black; throat white; breast largely black running down each 

 side below the yellow patches; center of the belly and under tail coverts 

 white; flank streaked with black; 3 pairs of outer tail feathers with con- 

 spicuous white spots; 2 conspicuous white wing bars. Adult female in spring : 

 Pattern of coloration similar to the male's, but the bluish gray replaced by 

 brownish; the breast less extensively black ; the flanks less heavily streaked; 

 the yellow patches on the crown and sides sometimes obscured, but the 

 rump patch is as conspicuous as in the male. Male in the fall : Similar to 

 the spring female but browner. Young: Similar to the male and female 

 in fall plumage, but the crown and breast patches usually obscured. 



Length 5.65 inches; extent 9.05; bill .35; wing 2.9; tail 2.2; tarsus .71. 



Distribution. Breeds from the limit of trees in Alaska and Labrador 

 to Maine, northern New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, western 

 Massachusetts, northern Michigan, Minnesota and British Columbia. In 

 New York the breeding range is apparently confined to the spruce belt 

 of the Catskills and Adirondacks. Its breeding at Utica and Buffalo 

 which has been reported has never been confirmed by later observation 

 although it may occasionally, like other species, breed casually in various 

 parts of the State. The winter range extends from Cape Elizabeth in 

 Maine, eastern Massachusetts, southeastern New York, southern Illinois, 

 southward to the West Indies, Mexico and Panama. Throughout New 

 York this is one of the commonest of the warblers in migration time, 

 arriving from the 5th to the 17th of April in the southeastern portion of 

 the State, from April 17 to 28 in central and western New York, April 26 

 to 30 in Essex county. In central New York it is commonest during the 

 first 10 days of May, and passes northward from the 20th to the 28th of 



