304 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



throat is yellow, wliilf in ours it is white. Our eastern species has 

 frequentl}' been found on the Pacific coast, but in the east the 

 western one has only once been observed, the record being of a 

 specimen taken near Cambridge, Mass., on the 15th November, 1876. 



DENDROTCA MACULOSA (Gmel.). 

 27l*. Magnolia Warbler. (657) 



Male 111 ■fjjriiig: — Back, black, the feathers more or les.s skirted with olive, 

 rump, yellow ; crown, clear ash, bordered by black in front to the ej'es, behind 

 the eyes by a white stripe ; forehead and sides of the head, black, continuous 

 with that of the back, enclosing the white under eyelid ; entire under parts 

 (except white under tail coverts), rich yellow, thickly streaked across the 

 breast and along the sides with black, the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting 

 off the definitely bounded immaculate j'ellow throat from the yellow of the 

 other under parts ; wing bars, white, generally fused into one patch ; tail spots 

 small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on all the feathers except 

 the central pair ; bill, black ; feet, brown. Fi'uhi/i hi sj)n'ii;/ .-i^mte similar ; 

 black of back reduceil to spots in the grayish-olive ; ash of head washed with 

 olive ; other head markings obscure ; black streaks below smaller and fewer. 

 Young : — Quite different ; upper parts, ashj'-olive ; no head markings whatever, 

 and streaks below wanting or confined to a few small ones along the sides, but 

 always known by tiie yellow rump in connection with extensively or completely 

 yellow under parts (except white under tail coverts) and small tail spots near 

 the middle of all the feathers except the central. Small, .1 inches oi- less ; wing, 

 •2h ; tail, 2. 



Hab. — Eastern North America to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 

 breeding from Northern New England, Northern New Yoi-k and Northei'n 

 Michigan to Hudson's liay 'I'erritory. In winter, Bahamas, ('ul)a and Central 

 America. 



Nest, usually placed in a low spiiicc oi- liendock, a few feet almvc the 

 ground, sometimes ten to fifteen feet up in a young hendock, composed of 

 twigs, rootlets and grass, and lined with horse-hair. 



Eggs, four or five, <lull white, mai'ked with lilac and brown. 



This by man}' is considered the most gaily dressed of the Warbler 

 famil3^ In Southern Ontario it is a migrant in .spring and fall, and 

 usually quite numerous. From its remaining near Hamilton till late 

 in May, and appeai-ing again about the end of August, we may infer 

 that some of the numbers which pass in spring Ijreed at no great 

 distance. Mr. C. J. Young, of the Collegiate Institute, Perth, men- 

 tions having found a nest of this species in his neighborhood on the 

 1st July, 1885. The description of the nest, its position and the 

 four eggs it contained, correspf)iid exactly with that gi\en by others 



