DENDRCECA CORONATA : MYRTLE BIRD. I3I 



company with a troop of Blue Yellow-backed War- 

 blers. An individual was also taken by Mr. E. A. 

 Mearns, at West Point, N. Y., not far from the New 

 England line, May 17, 1875 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 

 Jan., 1878, p. 40). A very full and interesting account 

 of the nest and eggs, before little known, has lately 

 been published by Mr. J. A. Allen, upon examination 

 of material from East Penfield, N. Y., taken by Mr. 

 P. S. Fuller, June 7, 1878 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, Jan., 

 1879, P- 25)-— C'.] 



YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER; MYRTLE BIRD. 



Dendrceca CORONATA (Z.) Gray. 



Chars. Adult male : Above, slaty-blue, streaked with black ; below, 

 white, the breast and sides heavily streaked with black ; throat 

 definitely pure white, bounded by the black of the side of the head 

 and of the breast. Eyelids and a supraciliary line white. Rump, 

 middle of crown, and sides of breast bright yellow. Wings with 

 two white cross-bars. Tail with large white blotches. Bill and 

 feet black. Length, 5.50-5.75 ; extent, 8.50 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 

 2.50. The male in winter, the female, and young have the slaty 

 color more or less completely replaced by plain dull brown, and 

 the streaks on the under parts few or obsolete, or not pure black. 

 The changes of plumage are interminable; but the rump is always 

 yellow, and there are more or less evident traces of the yellow 

 on the sides and crown ; which marks are therefore diagnostic. 



The very well-known Yellow-rump is the only spe- 

 cies of its genus regularly found in New England in 

 winter ; at which season it may be seen as far north 

 as Massachusetts, in company with Chickadees, Nut- 

 hatches, Kinglets, and various Sparrows. It is, how- 

 ever, less abundant during the inclement season than 

 whilst the migrations are in progress ; at which periods 



