284 Birds of North Carolina 



it on Septi'inlKT lo aiul 17, liS!)4. The only jilaco from wliicli it has iiccn iTj)ortt'(l 

 as common is Morganton, where Wayne ie])()ite(l it to he migrating in numbers 

 from Aiiril 22 to May 15, 1909. 



Fig. 228. C.M'E M.\Y W.arblf.r. 



An adult male was secured at Raleigh on Xovemlier 1, 1911, and an immature 

 bird was sent to Sherman from Cleelum, near Asheville, accompanied by a letter, 

 dated Sei)temlier 25, 1911, from which the following extracts are taken: 



I had .a fine lot of jrr.apos, fnit. tho birds li;i\-(> tlpstroycd tlie most of thom before we could gatlior 

 them. The liirds destroyed at least $7t^ worth for irie, and mes.sed them up so l)adfv they were 

 not worth jiatherin).''. It is a small bird, evidently of the Wi>rl)ler family, dull yellowish gray 

 above, a lighter yellowish gray below, with brea.st streaked with both colors. It has a beak like a 

 needle. It does not eat the grapes, but simply pricks holes in them and lets them ferment for 

 the bees to get dnmk on ne.\t day. I have seen many berries with two holes punched into them 

 al)out 1-10 inch ai)art >as though it had not even closed its l)eak in pricking them. Could it suck 

 the juice of the grape without closing its beak? I'lease tell me how to stop these birds next 

 season. I have turned things over to them this year. There are thousands of tliem, evidently 

 migrating, Imt they will not bunch so that one can .shoot them, and they will not scare off any 

 more than bees. They are too small to shoot singly. They do not seem to eat .any grain or meal, 

 only destroy grapes and eat a few moths. I will try to get a few and send one with this letter. 



E. V. H.vuuKCK, -M.D. 



Mr. Frank L. Burns, of Bcrwyn, Ba., writing in The Auk of April, 1915, describes 

 in (hi ail the great amount of damage done to the grape crop in that region in Sep- 

 teml)er, 191.3 and 1914, by Cape May Warblers. Speaking of this damage in his 

 immediate neigliborhood, he says: "So far as 1 am able to learn, all iinbagged 

 grapes were ruined: the loss nnist have been many tons, worth several hiiiulrcd 

 dollars." 



285. Dendroica sestiva sestiva (GnifL). Yellow Warbler: Simmer Ykl- 



LOW-IilHD. 



Description: Ad. male. — Upperparts l)right greenish yellow, Ijrighter on the crown: wings 

 edged with yellow; tail fuscous, the inner vanes of the feathers yellow; underparts bright yellow, 

 streakcil with rufous. ,1(/. fitmilv. — r])pcri)arts uniform yellowisli olive-grccn ; tail as in the 

 male; wings fuscous, edged with yellow; undcri)arts bright yellow, slightly, if at all, streaked with 

 rufous on the bn^ast and sides. Im. male. — Similar to the female. Im. fcmnte. — Upperpart.s 

 light olive-gi-een; tail fuscous, the inner mjirgins of the inner vanes of the tail-feathers yellow; 

 underparts uniform du.sky yellowi.sh. L., .5.10; W., 2.40; T., 1.89; B. from X., .:«. 



h'tmiirk-.'i. — In any plumage this biril may be known by the yellow on the inner \-anes of the 

 tail-feathers. (Chap., Birih of E. N. A.) 



HdiKjc. — Ivistcrn North America, east of the Rocky Mountains, wintering in ^Mexico, Central 

 and South America. 



Uniiijf ill .\iirlli Ciirolina. — Summer visitor in the central and western districts, but apparently 

 only a transient in the east. 



