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in the northern part of the state, and Dr. Wheaton cites the appearance of one 
individual near Columbus as corroborative. Since that time no decisive rec- 
ords have come in and it is probable that the “northward trend” has effaced 
this species from the list of breeding birds. 
No. 65. 
CERULEAN WARBLER. 
vas O. U. No. 658. Dendroica rara (Wils.). 
Description.—Adult male: Above and on sides of head, neck, and breast 
bright grayish blue (china-blue, scarcely “‘cerulean”), clearest on nape and rump; 
streaked with black on crown, back, and sides; lores black; below white, a narrow 
blackish band across chest (sometimes interrupted) ; sides of breast streaked with 
black, parually concealed and with bluish edgings; two narrow white wing-bars 
formed in the usual way; white blotches near end of all but central pair of tail- 
feathers, on inner web; bill and feet bluish black. Adult female: Above, bluish 
olive-green ; below, pale greenish buffy or greenish yellow, clearing on throat and 
belly, and obscurely striped with back-color on sides; line over and behind eye 
greenish yellow or wanting; wing-bars and tail-spots like male. Young: Like 
adult female, but males bluer above and whiter below. Autumnal plumage of 
adults not different. Length 4.00-5.00 (101.6-127.) ; wing 2.67 (67.8) ; tail 1.73 
(43.9); bill .40 (10.2). 
Recognition Marks.—Smaller; azure-blue and white coloration of male; 
bluish-greenish-grayish olive of female. The latter may be distinguished from 
the female of D. caerulescens, the only one with which it is likely to be confused, 
by the two wing-bars and the tail-spots. 
Nest, a compact structure of fine grasses held together by spiders’ silk, and 
decorated externally with lichens; lined with strips of bark and fine grasses; 
placed from twenty to seventy feet high in deciduous ‘trees, at some distance from 
trunk. Eggs, 4, creamy white, speckled and blotched, chiefly near the larger end, 
with chestnut and lilac. Av. size, .67 x .50 (17. x 12.7). 
General Range.—E astern United States and southern Ontario west to the 
Plains. Rare or casual east of central New York and the Alleghanies. In winter 
south to Cuba, southeastern Mexico, Central America, and western South America. 
Breeds from about latitude 35° north to Minnesota. 
Range in Ohio.—Rather common summer resident throughout the state; 
more common as migrant. 
THE first five days of May are pretty sure to be warbler days in northern 
Ohio. For seven years the Cerulean Warbler has appeared at Oberlin dur- 
ing these first five days, usually near the first, and he is always singing when 
he first appears. He nests in some numbers in Lorain county and elsewhere 
