112 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS 
Bay-breasted Warblers? I have only ‘‘ Wilson’s Ornithology” 
at hand, and unfortunately no specimen of the bird in question. 
But the weight of evidence seems to show that the bird as col- 
ored and described by Wilson represents the young of the 
latter ; and yet is it not possible that he may have accidentally 
obtained a young Bay-breasted Warbler from among a com- 
pany of ‘ Black-pdlls ”?3° Coues admits that the young of 
the two species are so much alike as often to be indistinguish- 
able. It is certain that the small warblers seen here in Octo- 
ber, which resemble the Autumnal Warblers, are young ‘‘Black- 
polls,” as is indicated by the fact of their abundance and by 
their habits. Mr. Maynard states it as a positive fact. 
Their note is a feeble Cedar-bird-like lisp; but Wilson 
speaks of the males warbling in autumn ‘ low, but very sweet 
notes,” which perhaps is a mistake. (See D, d, E, d.) ] 
(F) BLackBuRNIz. Blackburnian Warbler. Hemlock War- 
bler. 
(Generally not a common migrant through Massachusetts, 
where this species occasionally breeds.) 
(a). About 43 inches long. 2 dark above. Wing-patch, 
white. Head, throat, and breast, brilliant orange, with a border 
to the crown and a broad stripe through the eye black. Sides 
black-streaked, and belly nearly white. 9 essentially like 9 
striata (E) above. Superciliary line, throat and breast, yellow. 
Otherwise like ¢. 
(b). Anest of this species, containing young, which I found 
in Northern New Hampshire, was placed about twenty feet 
from the ground in a pine. Another, which I was so fortunate 
as to find in a thick hemlock-wood near Boston, was also about 
twenty feet above the ground. It contained three young and a 
yet unhatched egg, which measures *65X*‘50, and resembles 
the egg of the Chestnut-sided Warbler (D), being white, with 
lilac and principally reddish-brown markings, grouped at the 
309 The legs in Wilson’s picture are, however, colored like those of the “‘ Black- 
poll,” and not like those of the “‘ Bay-breast.” 
