IQO Till-: T(»\\.\Si:XI) WARBLEK. 



No. 77. 

 TOWNSENDS WARHI.KR. 



A. < >. r. No. frfiS. Dendroica townsendi (Towns.*. 



Description. — Adult mole: I'ilciim. hiiidiifck, lores and auricnlars, chin, 

 throat and u|)|)cr chest black; sn])raloral regii>n contiinious with broad super- 

 ciliary, a spot under eye and a malar stri|)e liroadening behind (and nearly 

 nieetin}; end of superciliary on side of neck) yellow, breast yellow heavily 

 streaked on sides with black, the black streaks thickening and merging with 

 black of chest in front, scattering on tianks and rea])pearing on under tail-coverts; 

 U]>per sides and tianks and remaining nn<ler])arts i>iisteriorly white as to ground; 

 back, scapulars and rump yiUowish olive-green streaked with black -hading intn 

 black of head on hindneck ; upper tail-coverts abruptly bluish gray: wings and 

 tail blackish with some edgings of light gray; two white wing-bars formed by tips 

 of middle and greater coverts; three outer pairs of tail feathers blotche<l with 

 white on inner webs in descending ratio. P.ill black with paler tomia ; feet and 

 legs brown; iris brown. Adult male in fall and tvinti'r: .\reas and intensity of 

 black nnich reduced, pileuni and hindneck with much skirting of olive green 

 thru which black ai)])cars mesially on feathers; auriculars entirely concealed by 

 olive green feather-tips; black of chin and throat nearly concealed by yellow 

 an<l streaks of sides reduced ; black streaks of upper]>arts more or less concealed; 

 u])per tail-coverts color of back. .Idnlt female: \"ery similar in coloration to 

 adult male in fall; throat often more or less black, jiilenm sometimes more exten- 

 sively black but black streaking of uppcrparts still further reduced. Vonnfj birds 

 in first autumnal plumaije have no dear black, and the yellow of throat and 

 un<ler|>arts is paler. Length alwut 5.00 ( 127) ; wing 2.64 (67) ; tail 1.97 (50) ; 

 bill ..^4 (S.fi) ; tarsus .74 ( 18.8). 



Recognition Marks. — Warbler size; black on crown, cheeks and thniat in 

 high ]>hunage; in low j>luniage extensively yellow on sides of head enclosing 

 area of darker (olive-green) — yellow of throat combined with this character 

 may aflTord clew to identilication of winter specimens. 



Nesting- — Sest: a well built, bidky but rather shallow structure, chiefly of 

 cedar bark with a few slender lir twigs interwoven; lined with -tein-; of moss 

 flowers; i)laced at moderate heights in young fir trees well out on limb or settled 

 against trunk. Ei/gs: 4, white, wreathed and speckled with brownish and lilac. 

 Av. size, .C)i X .51 (i5-5x 12.9). Season: first week in June; one bnxwl. 



General Range. — Western North .\merica breeding from the mountains of 

 southern California north to .Maska and east to Idaho; during migrations east- 

 wanl to Kockv Mountains and southward to C.uatemala. Lower California, etc. 



Range in Washington. — Not uncommon s|)ring and fall migrant on both 

 sides of the Cascade .Mountains, summer resident in coniferous timber, probably 

 thruout the State ; partially resident in winter on Tuget Sound. 



Migrations. — Sf'rin;/: Seattle .Xjiril 20. IQ07; .\htanum (Yakima Co.) 

 ^L^y 4. i<;<y>. June 3. iSr;r); Chelan May 23. i<>03. Fall: .\ugnst. Winter records: 

 Seattle Dec. 31. i'to^: Tacoma Dec. 4. 13, 13. 21 and 2y, 1906. 



