228 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Upper parts nearly uniform black, with a whitish scapular stripe and a large 
white patch in the middle of the wing coverts; an oblong patch in the middle of 
the crown, and the entire side of the head and neck (including a superciliary stripe 
from the nostrils), the chin, throat, and forepart of the breast, bright orange-red; 
a black stripe from the commissure passing over the lower half of the eye, and 
including the ear coverts, with, however, an orange crescent in it, just below 
the eye, the extreme lid being black; rest of under parts white, strongly tinged 
with yellowish-orange on the breast and belly, and streaked with black on the sides; 
outer three tail feathers white, the shafts and tips dark-brown, the fourth and fifth 
spotted much with white, the other tail feathers and quills almost black. Female 
similar; the colors duller; the feathers of the upper parts with olivaceous edges. 
Length, five and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, two and eighty-three one- 
hundredths inches; tail, two and twenty-five one-hundredths inches. 
This, the most beautiful of all our Warblers, is a rare 
summer inhabitant of all New England. Dr. Brewer found 
it breeding in the eastern part of Massachusetts. Verrill 
says it breeds in Maine; Dr. Thompson says it breeds in 
Vermont; and I have seen it in New Hampshire in the 
season of incubation. It is a shy and mistrustful species, 
and is found only in the deepest woods, where it keeps in 
the thickest foliage of tall trees. Its nest and eggs I have 
not seen, and I am obliged to give the description by 
Audubon: “It [the nest] is composed externally of dif 
ferent textures, and lined with silky fibres and thin delicate 
strips of fine bark, over which lay a thick bed of feathers 
and horsehair. The eggs are small, very conical towards 
the smaller end, pure-white, with a few spots of light-red 
towards the larger end. It was found in a small fork of a 
tree, five or six feet from the ground, near a brook.” 
DENDROICA CASTANEA. — Baird. 
The Bay-breasted Warbler. 
Sylvia castanea, Wilson. Am. Orn., II. (1810) 97. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 382. 
Aud. Orn. Biog., I. 358. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Male. — Crown dark reddish-chestnut; forehead and cheeks, including a space 
above the eye, black; a patch of buff-yellow behind the cheeks; rest of upper parts 
bluish-gray, streaked with black; the edges of the interscapulars tinged with 
yellowish, of the scapulars with olivaceous; primaries and tail feathers edged ex- 
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