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BIRDS OF AMERICA 



hindneck to, and including, the back of head; back, 

 shoulders, rump, and upper tail-coverts, plain mouse- 

 gray ; wings and tail, dull blackish ; middle and greater 

 wing-coverts, broadly tipped with white, forming two 

 conspicuous bands, of which the one nearer the front 

 is the broader ; innermost greater coverts edged with 

 light grayish olive-green ; secondaries edged with more 

 yellowish olive-green ; primaries narrowly edged with 

 whitish, the seventh to the third white at base, forming 

 a conspicuous spot; tail-feathers narrowly edged with 

 pale grayish, usually becoming more olive-greenish 

 basally ; inner webs of two outermost tail-feathers 

 largely white, this occupying much the greater part on 

 exterior feathers, the outer web of which is also largely 

 white ; middle of breast and abdomen dull white, shad- 

 ing on sides and flanks into liglit olive-grayish ; under 

 tail-coverts, white ; bill, blackish ; iris, brown ; legs and 



feet, dusky. Adult Female; Crown and hindneck, 

 olive-greenish; sides of neck, head, throat, and chest, 

 dull sulphur-yellow, the chin and throat sometimes 

 nearly white ; ear region, dusky, at least in part ; lores, 

 dull grayish ; below eye, mixed dusky-grayish and dull 

 whitish; rest of plumage, as in adult male, but white 

 wing-bars narrower, and white spot at base of middle 

 primaries smaller, sometimes obsolete. 



Nest and Eggs. — Nest : In the fork of a conifer, 

 from 30 to 50 feet up; very neatly constructed of weed 

 stalks, moss, vegetable down, and lichens and tied 

 with spider webs. Eggs: 3 or 4, olive-gray or sage- 

 green, thickly covered with black specks, sometimes 

 almost obscuring the ground color. 



Distribution. — Highlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and 

 southwestern United States ; north to central Ari- 



The (jlive Warbler is confined in the United 

 States practically to the mountainous regions of 

 Arizona and New Mexico. A few may linger in 

 Arizona after the breeding season or even in 

 winter, but mostly the species spends the colder 

 months in the highlands of Mexico and Guate- 

 mala. In the pine forests which it frequents, its 

 movements suggest those of the Pine Warbler, 

 according to Dr. Chapman, who found it feeding 



" leisurely among the terminal branches or hop- 

 ping along the twigs without displaying the 

 ;ictivity of the fluttering Warblers." The same 

 observer thought that the bird's call-note, as he 

 heard it at Las Vegas, Vera Cruz, Mexico, re- 

 sembled that of the Tufted Titmouse, the syl- 

 lables being like pcto; and another ornithologist 

 ( Price) has described its song as a " liquid quirt, 

 quirt, quirt, in a descending scale." 



CAPE MAY WARBLER 

 Dendroica tigrina ( Cniclin) 



A. O. V. Number 1,50 Sec Color Plate 95 



General Description. — Length, 5 inches. Upper 

 parts, olive-green with dark streaks ; under parts, 

 yellow with black streaks. Bill, shorter than head, 

 tapering gradually to a very acute point; wings, long 

 and pointed ; tail, notched. 



Color. — Adult M.\le : Crown, black, sometimes 

 (especially in midsummer) uniformly so. usually with 

 the feathers, at least those of the back of head, margined 

 with olive (sometimes with rusty) ; sometimes a spot 

 of rusty on center of crown ; back, shoulders, lesser 

 wing-coverts, and upper rump, olive-green, the feathers 

 with a central spot of black; lovver rump varying from 

 yellowish olive-green to clear canary-yellow ; upper tail- 

 coverts, blackish, broadly margined with olive-green ; 

 middle wing-coverts, white or pale yellow, only their 

 extreme base dusky ; rest of wings, dusky, the greater 

 coverts edged with white, pale yellow, pale gray, or 

 pale olive, the feathers narrowly edged with light olive- 

 green, these edgings broader and paler on inner wing- 

 feathers ; tail, dusky with olive-green or grayish 

 edgings, the three outermost feathers with a large patch 



of white near the tip on inner web, decreasing rapidly 

 in size from the first to the third; stripe over eye. 

 rufous-chestnut, at least in front (the rear part, some- 

 times yellow) ; lores and streak behind eye. blackish ; 

 Itelozt' eye and sides of head, plain cinnamon-rufous : 

 sides of neck and under parts, yellow, becoming much 

 paler (sometimes white) on flanks, lower abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts ; chest and sides, streaked with 

 black, the throat also sometimes streaked, and often 

 tinged with cinnamon ; bill, black ; iris, brown ; legs 

 and feet, dusky brownish. Adlilt Female: Above, 

 olive, becoming more yellowish on lower rump, where 

 the feathers are sometimes bright olive-yellow with 

 darker center streaks, the crown streaked or spotted 

 with black ; wings, dusky with light olive edgings, the 

 middle coverts, tipped or margined terminally with 

 white, the greater coverts sometimes edged with pale 

 grayish ; tail, as in adult male ; a rather indistinct streak 

 of dull yellowish over eye; under parts, dull whitish, 

 usually tinged with yellow, especially on breast, chest, 

 and sides of neck, the chest and sides streaked 



