110 LAND-BIRDS. 



streaked. Under parts, white. Wing-bars, white, (generally) 

 forming one patch. Forehead and sides of head, black. Crown, 

 throat, and breast, chestnut (or deep chestnut red). Belly and 

 ear-patch, usually buff-tinged, but sometimes white. § ,with 

 paler chestnut than the (J . 



h. The nest is rather coarsely built, and is placed in the 

 bough of an evergreen (usually the hemlock) from ten to 

 twent}^ feet above the ground. Four or five eggs (in one case 

 reported by Mr. Maynard, six) are laid in northern New 

 Hampshire and Maine in the second week of June. These 

 eggs average .68 X .50 of an inch, and are bluish green, with 

 markings of brown and lilac, generally gathered in a ring 

 about the crown. 



c. The Bay-breasted Warblers are among the many species 

 who appear in Massachusetts as migrants only, and who pass 

 the summer in a colder climate.^^ They are, as a rule, very 

 rare throughout the State in s]3ring, and in autumn are never 

 seen here. Mr. Allen, however, in speaking of this species, 

 says that "in the Connecticut valley it is generally more or 

 less common and sometimes very abundant." 



The Bay-breasted Warblers arrive here, after leaving their 

 winter homes in the South, in the third or fourth week of May, 

 and frequent the woods and trees in open lands. I have gen- 

 erally seen them among budding maples, which, like willows, 

 possess great attractions for the migrant Warblers, but I have 

 also seen them among pines. T^hey are extremely active, and 

 busily seek for their food among the branches, occasionally 

 fluttering before the clusters of foliage ; they are not very 

 shy, and usually permit a near approach. 



They are rare among the White Mountains ; but Mr. May- 

 nard speaks of them as being the " most abundant of the 

 Sylvicolidm at Umbagog," * and adds that " these birds are 



^^ I have since learned that specimens linger about Boston through the first 



have been taken here in both June and week of June, and visit us again late 



July, a in July on their way southward. — 



« This, however, should not be taken W. B. 



as necessarily indicating that the spe- * This Warbler, like the Cape May, 



cies ever breeds in eastern Massachu- practically deserted the region about 



setts, for several other northern birds Lake Umbagog, between the years 1875 



