CERULEAN WARBLER. (jqq 



DENDROICA CAERULEA. 

 Cerulean Warbler 



L)E^CRIl'TlU2v. 

 Sp. Ch. Size, small, winjr bars two, and the white spots on the termination of the tail feathers extend 

 over all hut the central pair. Color. Adult male. Above bright blue, darkest on top of head and tinired 

 with ashy on rump. Middle of back, scapulars, upper tail coverts and sides of crown streaked with block. 

 White beneath, with band across breast and streaks on sides, dusky blue. Line from base of bill, throufdi 

 4:ye and behind it, also dark blue. Wings and tail, brown the fjrmer with two white bands, and the latter 

 with a terminal spot on the inner web of all the feathers excepting the two middle. Female, greenish blue 

 lAove, brightest ou top of head. Whiter beneath tinged with greenish yellow and indistinctly streaked 

 on sides with dusky. Eyelids and superciliary line, greenish white. Autumnal adults do not differ from 

 the spring plumage. Young males are quite similar to the adult females but are whiter beneath, and less 

 imifjrra blue above, while the dull streakings are more conspicuous. Young females are similar but duller 

 gi-een above without any tint of blue, and are light buffy yellow below. 



OBSERVATIOiSIS. 

 This species can.be at once distinguished from all of our warblers by the small sizes, two wine bars, 

 and spots extending bver all but the central pair of tail feathers. Occurs, during the breeding season 

 throughout Eastern United States and Southern Canada. North, in the east, as far as central New York. 

 Winters in Cuba, Yucatan, Honduras and Panama. 



DLMENSIONS. 

 Lsngth, from i.7^> to i.'M) ; stretch, 7.85 to 8.00 ; wing, 2.60 to 2.6;-) ; tail, L70 to LSD ; bill, .o') to .40 ; 

 .tarsus, .60 to .65. 



DESCRIPTION OF NESTS AND EGGS. 

 Nests, placed on horizontal limbs at a considerable elevation above the ground, in woodlands, composed 

 of fine grasses, mosses, hempen fibers of plants, and bits of hornets, nests, sometimes sparringly covered with 

 bits of lichen, all overwound with spiders' webs. Eggs, three or four in number, oval in form, creamy or 

 greenish white in color, sprinkled with reddish brown and lilac, which sometimes combine and form a ring 

 around the larger end Dimensions, .58 by .45 to .47 by .60. 



HABITS. 

 The only specinieii of the pretty little Cerulean Warbler which I ever saw was at 

 Williainsport, Peiuisylvaniu, May 22d, 1876. This was in a low erowth of woodland alou"- 

 the Alleghany Mouiitains. At tliiit time I heard no. song, but it is said to sing rather 

 <20utinu()usly in sunnuer, uttering a clear soft, but rather feeble melody whicli, however, 

 «nds in a creaking maimer. This warbler breeds about tlie middle of June and the nest 

 is usually saddled upon a branch of a lofty tree often at a considerable elevation from the 

 ground ; thus in breeding habit it somewhat resembles the Wood Pewee and, in fact> the 

 iiest is not often dissimdar. 



DEIMDROiCA PENNSYIVANICA 



Chestnut-sided Warbler. ' 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Ch. Size, merlium. Wing bars, present. White spots on tail extending over three outer feath- 

 ers. Color. Adult male, top of head orange yellow. Back, greenish yellow, broadly streaked with black. 



