DENDRCECID.E — THE WARBLERS — DENDRCECA. QJ 



streak. Length, 5. mi ; extent, T.jii ; wing, "2. 50 ; tail, 2.10. L-is brown ; bill blaek ; feet 

 brown. 



Hah. I'aeilic Coast of the United States; Fort Thorn, New Mexico. 



This species appeared ueiir San Diego, April 20th, in small flocks miorat- 

 ing northward, and then uttering only a faint chirp. They fret[uented low 

 bushes along the coast, but as they go north they take to the deciduous oaks, 

 when the leaves begin to grow early in JMay, at which time they reach the 

 Cohunbia Iiiver. Their song is rather faint and monotonous, and I have 

 not heard it during their migration nortli, nor have I seen them in this 

 State after April. According to Townsend, their nest is built in the upper 

 branches of the oak, in Oregon. 



Dendrceca Townsendii, Xuttall. 



TOWNSEND'S WAEBLEB. 



Sylvia Townsendii, (" Nuttall,") Tow.nskxu, J. A. N. So. Ph. VII. ii. 1837, 191. — AuDU- 

 Box, Orn. Biog. V. 18.33, 36; pi. 393. — .Sylvicvla Townsmdii, Bonaparte, List, 1838. 

 In. C'onsp. IS.iO, 308. — AunnBOX, Birds Ainer. II. 1841, .'i'J ; pi. 92. — Nuttall, 

 Man. I. 2d cd. 1840, m . — Demlmica Tmriisendii, Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 269. 

 — Cooper and Sucklev, XII. iii. Zuul. of \V. T. 179. 



Sp. Ch.\I!. Above, bright olive-green; the feathers all blaek in the centre, showing 

 more or less as streaks, especially on the crown (Juills, tail, and n]j]jer tail covert 

 ieathers dark brown, edged with bluish-gray ; the wings with two white bands on the 

 coverts ; the two outer tail leathers white, with a brown streak near the end ; a -white 





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streak only in the end of the third feather lender parts as far as the middle of the body, 

 with the sides of head and neck, including a superciliary stripe and a s])ot beneath the 

 eye, yellow ; the median portion of the side of the head, the chin and throat, with streaks 

 on the sides of the breast, flanks, and under tail coverts, black ; the remainder of the 

 under parts white. Length, 6.00 ; extent, 8.00 ; wing, 2. 65 ; tail, 2.25. L-is and feet 

 brown ; bill black. 



