THE BIRD BOOK 



669- Hermit Warbler. Dendroica occiden- 

 talis. 



Range. — Western United States and British Co- 

 lumbia chiefly on the higher ranges. Winters 

 south to Central America. 



This peculiar species has the entire head 

 bright yellow and the throat black; upperparts 

 grayish, underparts white. They are found nest- 

 ing in wild rugged country, high up in pine trees, 

 the nests being located among bunches of needles 

 so that they are very difficult to find. The nests 

 are made of rootlets, shreds of bark, pine needles, 

 etc., lined with fine grasses or hair. The three or 

 four eggs are laid during June or the latter part 

 of May; they are white or creamy white, and 

 sometimes with a faint greenish tinge, specked 

 and wreathed with brown and lilac gray. Size 

 .68 x .52. 



(>7<). Kirtland's Warbler. 

 landi. 



Dendroica kirt* 



l 



Range. — Eastern United States; apt to be found 

 in any of the South Atlanic, Middle or Central 

 States, and in Ontario, Canada. Winters in the 

 Bahamas where by far the greater number of 

 specimens have been found. 



This very rare Warbler is bluish gray above, 

 streaked with black, and yellow below with the 

 throat and sides streaked. Until the summer of 

 1903, the locality where they bred was a mystery. 

 The capture of a specimen, in June, in Oscodo Cc, 

 Michigan, led to the search for the nests by N. 

 A. Wood, taxidermist for the Michigan Museum 

 at Ann Arbor. He was successful in his quest 

 and found two nests with young and one egg. The 

 nest in which the egg was found contained two 

 young birds also. It was in a depression in the 

 ground at the foot of a Jack pine tree and only a few feet from a cart road. 

 The nest was made of strips of bark and vegetable fibres, lined with grass and 

 pine needles. The egg is white, sprinkled with brown in a wreath about the 

 large end. Size .72 x .56. It is estimated that there were thirteen pairs of the 

 birds in this colony. 



Hermit Warblers 



Kirt land's Warblers 



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