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226 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 
DENDROICA CORONATA. — Gray. 
The Yellow-rumped Warbler. 
Motacilla coronata, Linneus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 3338. Gm. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 
974. 
Sylvia coronata, Wilson. Am. Orn., II. (1810) 138. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 861 
Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1884) 308. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Above bluish-ash, streaked with black; under parts white; the fore part of breast 
and the sides black, the feathers mostly edged with white; crown, rump, and sides 
of breast yellow; cheeks and lores black; the eyelids and a superciliary stripe, two 
bands on the wing, and spots on the outer three tail feathers, white. Female, of 
duller plumage, and browner above. 
_ Length, five and sixty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, two 
and fifty one-hundreths inches. 
Tlie Yellow-rumped or Golden-crowned Warbler is very 
abundant in all parts of New England as a spring and fall 
visitor. It arrives from the South about the 20th of April, 
and passes quickly northward. But few breed south of 
the northern parts of Maine, 
and probably not a great many 
pass the season of incubation 
> there. When with us in the 
spring, they are found in the 
pastures, woods, orchards, and 
swamps, equally distributed, 
and evincing no partiality for 
any particular locality. They 
are then very active, and are constantly engaged in their 
search for insects. 
Their note is nothing but a kind of tchip and a tinkling 
twéeter, which they utter occasionally, both while on the 
wing and while perching. 
I have heard of no nest being found in either of the 
southern New-England States, — have met with but one in 
Massachusetts, and have heard of but two or three others. 
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