118 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



closely resembles that of the Yellow Warbler, the two spe- 

 cies are so rarely found breeding in the same kind of coun- 

 try that one will not often confuse 

 their songs. The singer in the dry 

 scrubby thickets is nearly always the 

 Chestnut-side, while the bird of the 

 streams and cultivated land is the 

 Yellow "Warbler. 



Each of these two warblers com- 

 Fig. 17. Chestnut-sided monly has two quite distinct songs, 

 Warbler one strong and incisive, the other 



feebler and less piercing. The sharp incisive song of the 

 Chestnut-side ends with a phrase which has suggested the 

 rendering, Very, very glad to meet you. The loose or feeble 

 song has so little character that it is hard to learn. 



The yellow crown of this bird, and the white throat, 

 breast, and belly make it easy to recognize, even if the 

 narrow line of chestnut is not at first seen. The yellow- 

 ish wing-bars of the young, and their greenish-yellow 

 backs, and white, unstreaked under parts, distinguish them 

 from other young warblers. 



Magnolia Warbler ; Black and Yellow Warbler. 



Dendroica maculosa 



5.12 



Ad. $ . — Head ashy ; cheeks and back black ; large patch of 

 white on the wing ; all the tail-feathers tipped with black for some 

 distance, all but the central ones white above the tips ; rump 

 yellow ; under parts yellow ; breast and sides heavily streaked ivith 

 black. Ad. J. — Similar, but duller. Im. — Upper parts gray ; 

 back greenish in strong light ; rump and under parts yellow ; 

 tail as in adult. 



Nest, from three to six feet up, in coniferous trees. Eggs, 

 white, marked with brown at the larger end. 



The Black and Yellow Warbler is a migrant through 

 southern New York and New England, common in western 



