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reddish brown; average size 0.70 x 0.50. (Davie, N. & E. N. 

 A. B. fifth Ed. p. 441). 



The food consists, as far as I have observed, of insects, and 

 both birds feed the young with grubs and other insects. 



661. Dendroka striata (Forst.). Black-poll Warbler. 



Plumage of adult male : crown black ; nape streaked with black and white ; 

 back and rump streaked with black and grayish or ashy ; wings and tail 

 deep brownish or blackish, edged with lighter or grajrish ; the wing coverts 

 white tipped, forming two distinct bars on wing ; inner webs of outer tail 

 feathers white near tip ; ear coverts white ; middle of breast and belly white, 

 unstreaked ; the sides of throat, breast and flanks streaked with black. Plum- 

 age of adult female : slightly greenish or olive tinged above, streaked with 

 black ; crown not pure black like in male but streaked with black ; streak- 

 ings below generally narrower than in male to which the general plumage 

 is very similar. Immature plumage : olive green above and on sides of head, 

 obscurely streaked and chiefly on the back with black ; wing coverts clove 

 brown, edged with olive green and tipped with white tinged with yellowish, 

 forming two distinct bars ; below pale yellow, white on abdomen, and very 

 obscurely streaked with gray on throat and sides. Wing 2.87 ; tail 2.10. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to the Rocky Mountains, breed- 

 ing from the mountains of New York, northern, eastern and western Maine, 

 northern Michigan and Manitoba northward to Newfoundland, Labrador, 

 Hudson Bay, and northwest to Alaska ; the most southern breeding record 

 is Manitou, Colorado; wintering in northern South America; migrating 

 southward through the states east of the Missouri River. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; fairly common migrant, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook; common summer resident of the Woolastook Valley, (Knight). 

 Cumberland ; common transient near Portland, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 8). 

 Franklin; rare summer resident, (Swain) ; common summer resident, on Mts. 

 Abraham and Bigelow, (Sweet). Hancock; quite common in the spring, 

 rare in the fall, (Mrs. W. H. Gardner) ; breeds on many of the wooded islands, 

 (Knight). Kennebec; migrant, (Larrabee). Knox; often common, (Rack- 

 liff). Oxford; migrant, (Nash;. Penobscot ; abundant migrant, a few breed 

 in northern sections and occasionally a pair near Bangor, (Knight). Piscata- 

 quis; common on Mt. Katahdin, June 22 & 23, 1897, (F. H. Allen) ; common 

 migrant, (Homer). Sagadahoc; common migrant, (Spinney). Somerset; 

 rare migrant, (Morrell); rare summer resident of the wilds, (Knight). 

 Waldo; common migrant at least, (Knight). Washington ; not uncommon 

 summer resident, (Boardman). 



As a spring migrant the species occurs very generally and 



commonly throughout the State, arriving from May tenth to 



