AMERICAN AVAEBLEES. 



Eggs, four in number, creamy white, thickly spotted and dotted with 

 brown, of varying shades, and lilac. Dimensions, .68 by .52. 



General Habits. Audubon's Warbler does not ap- 

 pear to differ in habits from the Yellow-rump, which it so 

 closely resembles in general coloration. Of the song I 

 know nothing, as I have never met with this species liv- 

 ing. 



Migration and Breeding Rang::. Breeds in the 

 mountainous regions of the United States, and northward 

 into British Columbia. Miorates southward in October, 

 to winter in Southern Arizona and California and south- 

 ward to Guateniala. Its claims to a place in the fauna 

 of New England rests upon a single specimen which was 

 taken in Watertown, Massachusetts, November fifteenth, 

 1876. It has also been recorded from Pennsylvania. 



BT.\CK ANI> YELLOW WARBLER. 



I>endroica iiiacMilo-sa. 



Plate II, Fig. 5, male : Fig. 6, female. 



Size, 4.75 to 5.10. Beneath, bright yellow, heavily 

 streaked on lower parts of the throat and along sides 

 with black. Top of head, slaty blue. Back and patch 

 on side of head, black. 



Migrates through Southern, to breed in Northern New 

 England. Rather uncommon in Eastern Massachusetts. 



Male. Top of head, slaty blue. Back, patch on sides of head, in- 

 cluding a naiTOw frontal line, upper tail coverts and tail, black, the lat- 

 t?r having a band of spots across the terminal third of the inner webs 

 of all but the two middle feathers. Beneath, blight yellow, with the 

 lower part of the throat, sides and flanks, broadly streaked Avith black. 

 Abdomen, under tail coverts, stripe over eye, spot ou under eyelid, and 

 wing bands, white. 



Female. Similar to the male, but duller, and the black is obscured 

 with crreenish. 



