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WAEBLEES. 



1. CHESTNUT- SIDED WARBLER, S. pennsylvanica. 

 5.00 ; white beneath, broadly streaked with chestnut on sides ; 

 crown, yellow ; greenish above, patch on side of head and 



Fig. 316. 



CC, H, h, 1. 1-3. 



streaks on back, black, 

 fig. 316. Female, some- 

 what duller ; young with- 

 out chestnut on sides. 

 Breeds commonly 

 throughout N. E., N. Y., 

 and Penn., north to On- 

 tario, less commonly west 

 to Ind. and III; wifiters 

 from Guatemala to Pana- 

 ma ; north in May ; south 



in Aug. and Sep. Frequents brushy fields, especially if moist. 

 Usual song, ''''S-iveet sweet stvect — towcccher'''' with a pause 

 before the two terminal syllables which are given with a de- 

 cidedly rising inflection ; another, not unusual song, is a 

 rather disconnected lay not unlike that of the Canadian 

 Warbler; another, not as usual, is a song similar to that of 

 the Nashville Warbler. 



i. Streaked Warblers. liineocantor. 



Large warblers with stout bills, long wings, folding be- 

 yond middle of moderately long tail which has both its co- 

 verts long, reaching considerably beyond its tip ; streaked 

 above and sometimes below with dusky ; no yellow markings 

 Sexes, unlike; wing bands and tail spots present in both. 

 Ancestral origin, northern S. A. 



1. BLACK-POLLED WARBLER, L. striata. 5.50; 

 black and white in stripes; top of head, solid black; back, 

 grayish, fig. 317. Female, autumnal male, and young, 

 greenish above, greenish-white beneath, streaked above and 

 on breast and side& with dusky; wing bars often greenish. 

 Breeds from extreme northern N. E. and northern Mich, to 

 Hudson Bay ; winters in northern S. A. ; north in May ; south 

 in Sep. and Oct. Abundant, occurring in orchards and low 



