Nests in Trees, Bushes, or Vines 
Adult 2? —Upper parts dull olive instead of black ; the yellow parts 
are replaced by dull orange. Length—5.25. 
Breeding Range—From southern Maine, eastern Massachusetts, 
and northern New York northward ; also along the Alle- 
ghanies from South Carolina northward. 
The nest is described as being compactly made of spruce 
twigs, fine roots, shreds of bark, and soft plant down (especially 
cat-tail down), lined with hair, grass, tendrils, and sometimes 
feathers. It is placed in coniferous trees, at about twenty feet 
from the ground. 4 eggs are laid ; they are white, tinged with 
green or blue and spotted or faintly blotched with various shades 
of brown and ashy lilac. Size—.69 x .50. 
These warblers, the most brilliant-coloured of their family, 
are known to most of us only as migrants, reaching the neigh- 
bourhood of New York about the middle of May, on their way 
to their breeding places in the evergreen forests of Maine and 
northward. 
The nests are completed probably about the end of May or 
beginning of June. 
668. Yellow-throated Warbler: Dendroica dominica 
(Linn.) 
Adult—Upper parts gray; darker on the forehead ; over the eye 
there is a white line, which changes to yellow between the 
eye and bill ; sides of face and sides of throat black, back 
of which is a white patch; under parts yellow to white on 
the belly, and streaked on the sides with black. Length— 
5.25. 
Breeding Range—Virginia (casually to southern New England), 
southward. 
The nest is placed on a branch of a pine tree, or in tufts of 
hanging moss, at a height of eighteen feet and upwards. It is 
composed of twigs, bark, and Spanish moss, lined with plant- 
down, and sometimes feathers. 
The eggs, numbering from 4 to 5, are whitish, with spots 
of brown and drab evenly distributed, or in a wreath at the larger 
end. Size—.74 x .53. 
The breeding season commences towards the end of April 
or early in May. 
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