292 Birds of Xokth Cakoliis-a 



The Blackhuniian Warbler is kuuwn in central North Carolina mainly a.s a fall 

 transient, at which season it has been observed at Raleigh from September 10 to 

 October 13. At Durliam it has been taken by Seeinan on May 3 anil October 24, 

 1900, and at Chapel Hill by Pearson on October 10, 1897. 



Fig. 235. BL.\CKBrnNi.\x W.^hblkr. 



In the nunintaius it is a ronnnon sunuucr v'isitor, arriving about the middle of 

 April, and leaving the latter part of September. In Buncombe County Cairas has 

 recorded it as breeding at an elevation of about 3,500 feet. Brewster reported it 

 as al)undant in late May, 188.J, in .Jackson and Macon counties, everywhere above 

 3,000 feet, and as one of the most comnmn l)irds at Highlands and on the crest of 

 the Cowee ]\Ioimtain range. Twenty-three years later Sherman and C. S. Brimley 

 passed through the same region in early May and saw only a single bird, although 

 a sharp lookout was maintained. They took a male in full breeding condition 

 about lialfway up .Joanna BaUl Mountain, near Andrews, on May 14, 1908. Bruner 

 has taken tliis liird at Blowing Rock in sununer. Khoads records it as Ijreeding 

 on Roan Mountain. Feild and Bruner found it common on ( Jrandfather Mountain 

 in June, 1911. 



The nest is built in a coniferous tree, often being placed on a horizontal limb. 

 It is bulky, for a warl)lcr's, and is usually a derLsely woven mass of small twigs, 

 vegetable down, and rootlets, lined with horsehair and feathers. The eggs are usu- 

 ally four, greenish white in color, speckled with brown and gray chiefly around the 

 larger end. Size .09 x ..")(). 



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295. Dendroica dominica dominica (Linn.). Yellow- tiiko.^ted Warbler. 



Description: A<l. male. — ^.\ yellow lino in front of the eye and a white line over it; upperparts 

 gray, foreheail hlackish; win^s and tail edged with frravisli, two wliite winit-bars; outer tail- 

 feathers with white patehes near their tips; cheeks and si<les of the throat hlaek; a white patch 

 on the side of tlie neck; tliroat and breast yellow, hs'lly white, sides streaked vyith hlaek. .id- 

 female. — Similar, hut witli less black on the head, throat, and nock. L., 5.2.5; \V., 2.60; T., 2.01; 

 B., .49. {Chap.. liirih of E. \. A.} 



Range. — Sontli .\tlantif States from Maryland southward, winterinp; in the West Indies, 

 Florida, and along the .Atlantic coast locally to .'south Carolina. 



Range in .\orlh Carolina.— Wholo Slate in summer, e.\cept the higher parts of the mountain 

 region. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler reaches North Carolina in sjjring about the last 

 week in March and has been observed as late as the middle of September. In the 



