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ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



DENDEOICA CORONATA. — (?ray. 



The Yellow-rumped Warbler. 



MotaciUa coronata, Linnffius. Syst. Nat, L (1766) 333. Gm. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 

 974. 



Sylvia coronata, "Wilson. Am. Cm., IL (1810) 138. Nutt. Man., L (1832) 361 

 Aud. Orn. Biog., IL (1834) 303. 



Description, 



Above bluish-ash, streaked with black ; under parts white ; the fore part of breast 

 and the sides black, the feathers mostly edged with white; crown, rump, and sides 

 of breast yellow; cheeks and lores black; the eyelids and a superciliary stripe, two 

 bands on the wing, and spots on the outer three tail feathers, white. Female, of 

 duller plumage, and browner above. 



Length, five and sixty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, two 

 and fifty one-hundreths inches. 



The Yellow-rumped or Golden-crowned Warbler is very 

 abundant in all parts of New England as a spring and fall 

 visitor. It arrives from the South about the 20th of April, 

 and passes quickly northward. But few breed south of 



the northern parts of Maine, 

 and probably not a great many 

 pass the season of incubation 

 there. When with us in tlie 

 spring, they are found in the 

 pastures, woods, orchards, and 

 swamps, equally distributed, 

 and evincing no partiality for 

 any particular locality. They 

 are then very active, and are constantly engaged in tlieir 

 search for insects. 



Their note is nothing but a kind of tchip and a tinkling 

 twSeter, which they utter occasionally, both while on the 

 wing and while perching. 



I have heard of no nest being found in either of the 

 southern New-England States, — have met with but one in 

 Massachusetts, and have heard of but two or three others. 



