512 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



During the fall months they enter city gardens and orchards, 

 climb over the roofs and along the gutters of houses, peering 

 into every nook and cranny. They hover on beating wings 

 about such crannies of the clapboards and finish where they 

 may have spied some delicious, big fat spider, chrysalis or 

 other delectable morsel, and such finds are speedily devoured. 

 Now peering, now hovering, and now springing into the 

 air after some winged insect, they stop about a building for 

 a few hours or days, slowly but surely retreating southward, 

 until at last one day in late October or early November they 

 are with us still and the next dawn they are not to be found, 

 nor do we see them until another spring has come. 



657. Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.). Magnolia Warbler; 

 Black and Yellow Warbler. 



Plumage of adult male : white line from eye backward ; white patch or 

 bar on wing which closely examined proves to be two connected bars ; inner 

 webs of tail feathers with white patches near middle and tail otherwise 

 black ; cheeks and forehead black ; lower eyelid white ; crown bluish gray ; 

 back black, some of the feathers very slightly tipped with olive green; 

 wings dark brownish to blackish, the feathers very narrowly edged with 

 whitish on outer webs, and rather more widely edged on inner webs so that 

 viewed from below the wings appear whitish to a great extent ; rump bright 

 yellow ; below streaked and spotted on breast and sides with black ; throat 

 and belly bright yellow ; under tail coverts white. Plumage of adult female : 

 black of back streaked or not solid like that of male ; more greenish to tips 

 of back feathers ; in general less heavily streaked below, and streakings 

 slightly duller colored; very similar to male. Immature plumage: back 

 olive green ; top and side of head ashy ; below yellow rather obscurely 

 streaked on breast and sides with black ; belly lighter yellow or whitish ; 

 otherwise much as in adults. Wing 2.35 ; tail 2.00. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding from the more elevated 

 sections of Massachusetts, northern New York, northern Michigan, northern 

 Minnesota and Maine to Newfoundland, northern Quebec, Hudson Bay, 

 Fort Simpson and the Nahanni Mountains; casual in British Columbia; also 

 breeding on higher mountains of Pennsylvania and western Maryland ; 

 wintering in the coastal region of Mexico and Central America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; common migrant, fairly common sum- 

 mer resident, (Call). Arooostook; common summer resident, throughout, 

 (Knight). Cumberland ; common summer resident, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 7) ; 

 not rare migrant, (Mead). Franklin; common summer resident, (Swain). 



