1»() BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



Dmilrirca dinrolor A. & E. Newton. IMs. ISS. 144.-CotJE«. Key. 1872.108; Check List. 



IKW.No. 80: ad ed. ISSi No. 127; B. N. W. Iti74.63; B. CoL VuL 1878. S4S.— RiDO V. Non>. 



N. Am. B. 1881. No. lU. 

 Sulria mhiula \Vn,8. Am. Orn. HI. 1811.87. pi. 85. Mb. 4. 



Hab. Eiinturii I'nltud Scutos. Qorth to Ma»8ni-'hU8>'ttji iind northern Illinois, west to 

 Knnwih; l>ri'<Mllni{ n.Nirly Ihrouuhout Its rnnue. In sultjible looalltics. Winters In Florida 

 (iind Dthir Oiilf Stiitos?! and In most of the West Indies. 



"8p. I'HAK. Spring iniilf. AIjovc uniform olive-fc'reen. the interseiipulur reifion with 

 ehestniit-red eentre« to feuthers. luder purls niul sides of the heiid. ini-ludliiK « hroild 

 superellliiry Hue from the nostrils to n little liehhul the eye, lirlcht y.-llow. brightest iin- 

 torlorly. .\ well-dellned iinrrow stripe from the eommlssure of the mouth through Ibo 

 oye, and another froui the same point eurvinc gently below It. ulso a series of strciiks on 

 eaeh side of the body, extending from the throat to the flanks, bluek. QuiUsand Uill- 

 feathers brown, edged with white: the terminal half of the Inner web of the llrst and 

 second tail-feathers white. Two yellowish banils on the wings. /Viiia/c similar, but 

 duller. The dorsal streaks Indistinct. Length. 4.(i<J; wing, 2.25; tail. 2.1U. 



"First plumage tif the young not seen. 



"Autumnal specimens have the plumage more bleiuled, hut the 

 markings not changed. A young male in autumnal dress is wholly 

 brownish olive-green above, the whole wing uniform ; the forehead 

 ashy, the markings about the head rather obsolete, the chestnut 

 spots on the back and the black ones on the sides nearly concealed.'" 

 (Ilist.X. Am. B.) 



The so-called Prau-ie Warbler (and a less appropriate name has 

 rarely been bestowed !), is one of the few species which appear to 

 be more numerous eastward of the AUeghauies than to the west- 

 ward of that range. It is abundant along the Atlantic coast, from 

 Florida to Massachusetts, where it frequents open places, such as 

 neglected fields and pastures, more or less grown up to bushes or 

 young trees, its favorite haunts bemg locahties where young cedars 

 (JuniperuB virginiana) are pretty thickly scattered about. Like all 

 other warblers, it visits the orchards when the trees are in blossom, 

 and it was in a blooming apple tree that the only specimen ever 

 shot by the writer at Mount Cannel was killed. 



The nest of this species is thus described by Dr. Brewer, in His- 

 tory of North American Birds (Vol. I., p. 278): 



"Several nests of this "Warbler have been obtained by Mr. Welch 

 in Lynn. One was built on a wild rose, only a few feet from the 

 ground. It is a snug, compact, and elaborately woven structure, 

 having a height and a diameter of about two and a half inches. 

 The cavity is two inches wide and one and a half deep. The ma- 

 terials of which the outer parts are woven are cliietly the soft inner 

 bark of small shiiibs, mingled with dry rose-leaves, bits of vegeta- 

 bles, wood, woody fibres, decayed stems of plants, spiders' webs, 



