368 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



the spring (tf 18^5, when I observed a flock of fifty or more feeding 

 in a clump of willows overhanging an inlet of the Hamilton Bay. 



Listowel seems a favorite locality with the Warblers, and Mr. 

 Kells evidently gives them some attention, for this is another species 

 which he found V)reeding in a low, swampy, mixed l)ush not far from 

 his home. Mi'. Ivells found a nest placed between a slender limb 

 and the trunk of a small cedar about five feet up. Another was 

 found in a hemlock at an elevation of fourteen feet. The nests were 

 built as described above, of lather small size, the interior being oidy 

 about two inches in diameter by one in depth. 



DENDROTCA STRIATA (Forst.). 

 -'7r,. Black-poll Warbler, (iw'.l) 



'^ Mall ill "jiri iiij : — Upper parts thickly streaked with black and olivaceous- 

 ash ; whole crowii, pure black ; liead below the level of tlie eyes and whole 

 under parts, white, the sides thickly marked with Ijlack streaks crowding 

 forward on the sides of the neck to form two stripes that converge to meet at 

 base of the bill, cutting off the white of the cheeks from that of the throat ; 

 wing bars and tail blotches, white ; inner secondaries, white-edged ; primaries 

 usually edged externally with oli\e ; feet and under mandible, flesh color or 

 pale 3'ellowish ; upper mandible, black. Femctle in sprimj : — Upper parts, 

 including the crown, greenish-olive, both thickly and rather sharply black 

 streaked; white of under parts soiled anteriorly with very pale olivaceous- 

 yellow, the streaks smaller and not so crowded as in the male. Youitij : — 

 Closely resembling the adult female, but a brighter and more greenish-olive 

 above with fewer streaks, often obsolete on the crown ; below, more or less 

 tinged with pale greenish-yellow, the streaks very obscure, sometimes alto- 

 gether wanting : under tail coverts, usually pure white ; a yellowish sui)eroiliai-y 

 line; wing l)ai's, tinged with the same color. Length, .").^-."'):'i' ; wing. 'I'i-'A: tail. 

 2-2^. 



Hab. — Eastern \oilh Ameriia to the Rocky Mountains, iiorlli to (.Jreen- 

 land, the Barren (irounds'and Alaska, breeding from Northern Xew Knglaml 

 northward ; south, in winter, to Northern South Amei'ica. 



Nest, in an evergreen, eight or ten feet from the groiuid, built of lai-cii twigs 

 woven together with moss and grass, and lined with fine gra.ss. 



Eggs, four or five, variable, usually white, spotted with ])iu])le and rcildisli- 

 l)rown. 



The Black-poll is a regular visitor in Southern (Jntario in spring 

 and fall. Tt is the last of the family to arrive from the south, being 

 seldom seen before tlie 20th of May. Tts stay at that time is of 

 short duration, and when it goes the collector considers the Warbler 



