226 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



DENDEOICA COEONATA. — Gmt/. 



The Yellow-rumped Warbler. 



MotaciUa cormata, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat, I. (1766) 333. Gm. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 

 974. 



Sylvia cormata, Wilson. Am. Cm., IL (1810) 138. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 361. 

 Aud. Cm. 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 10th of May, 

 and passes quickly northward. But few breed south of 

 -=^^!^ I ^ ^^^^ northern parts of Maine, 



o^^ ^ ^ ^^^ probably not a great many 



pass the season of incubation 

 there. When with us in the 

 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 their 

 search for insects. 



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

 tiveeter, 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. 



