360 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



Gexus DENDROICA (tkay. 



Subgenus PERISSOGLOSSA Baird. 



DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmkl.). 



268. Cape May Warbler. (G50) 



Male ill spriutf: — Back, yellowish-olive with dark spots: crown, blackish, 

 more or less interrupted with browniish ; ear patch, orange-brown ; chin, throat 

 and posterior portion of a yellowish superciliary line, tinged with the same ; 

 ■a black loral line, nynp and under parts ricli yellow, paler on belly and crissnin, 

 the breast and sides streaked with black ; wing bars, fused into a large whitish 

 patch ; tail blotches large, on three pairs of retrices ; bill and feet, black. 

 Female in ><priiu^: — Somewhat similar, but lacks the distinctive head nuirkings ; 

 the under parts are paler and less .streaked ; the tail spots small or obscure ; the 

 white on the wing less. Yoiiikj : — An insignificant-looking bird, resembling 

 an overgrown Kuby-crowned Kinglet without its crest ; obscure greenish-olive 

 above ; rump, olive-yellow ; under parts, yellowish-white ; breast and sides with 

 the streaks obscure or obsolete ; little or no white on wings, which are edged 

 with yellowish ; tail spots very small. Length, o-aj ; wing, 2J ; tail, 2|. 



Hab. — Eastern North America, north to Hudson's Bay Territory, west 

 to the Plains. Breeds from Northern New England nortliward and also in 

 Jamaica; winters in the West Indies. 



Nest, fastened to the outermost twigs of a cedar l)ough about three feet 

 from the ground, composed of minute twigs of dried spruce, grasses and 

 strawberry vines woven together with spider wel>s. The rim is neatly formed 

 and the lining is entirely of horse-hair. 



Eggs, three to five, creamj'-white, marked with lilac and leddisli-brown. 



This rare and beautiful Warbler is peculiar to the east, not yet 

 having been found west of the Missi.ssippi. In the Eastern States it 

 is occasionally obtained, but is so rare that it is always regarded as a 

 prize, and the collector who recognizes in the woods the orange 

 «ar-coverts and striped breast of this species is not likely soon to 

 forget the tingling sensation which passes up to his finger enfls at 

 the time. 



I have altogether found six in <)iitaii(>, l)ut the occasions of their 

 capture extended o\er a good man}' years. The above descri])tion of 

 the nest and eggs is condensed from an account given by Montague 

 Chamberlain in the Auk for January, 1885, of the finding of a nest 

 on the northern bouiuhiry of New Brunswick in the summer of 1882. 



