MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 
and Nantucket, many of which remain through the 
winter. 
The Myrtle Warbler is an indifferent songster. His 
eall-note is a familiar and characteristically staccato 
tchip, and his song is not unlike that of the Chipping: 
Sparrow, a monotonous, wiry, and thin tswe, tswe, tswe,. 
tswe, tswe, etc., pitched beyond the keyboard limit, thus: 
cres. o 
i= times 8va, 
This is the only record I possess of this Warbler’s song; 
consequently I can not promise that it is an absolutely 
typical specimen. Possibly other birds might sing in 
away that would prove this theme had its variations, 
but I have my doubts about that. 
Magnolia This is another streaky-marked bird 
Warbler which is easily identified. His less com- 
Dendroica 
PR ae mon name is the Black and Yellow 
L.5.10inches Warbler and he may be esthetically con- 
May 15th sidered a color symphony in those two 
contrasting tones. Crown ashen gray bordered by a 
narrow line of white, a decidedly bluer gray in spring 
specimens; the forehead and sides of the face well below 
and back of the eye black; upper parts black bordered 
with olive green; lower parts, throat, and rump bright 
yellow; breast and sides strongly striped with black; 
tail black with the inner vanes of all except the middle 
feathers white-patched midway, leaving the terminal 
third black; a large white patch on the wing-coverts. 
Female similarly marked but the colors duller and Jess 
sharply defined. Nest generally in evergreen-trees, built 
of fine twigs, leaf stems, moss, and rootlets, lined with 
finer material of the same nature; it is generally from 
three to six feet above the ground. Egg white marked 
about the larger end with cinnamon brown and olive 
brown. This bird is common throughout eastern North 
America; it breeds from northern New England and 
Michigan north to Hudson’s Bay, and south along the 
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