WOOD WARBLERS: Family Compsothlypidae [ 55 ] 



are records for every county, and in eastern Oregon it occupies a broad 

 triangle with its apex on the Columbia River near The Dalles and its 

 base extending from the eastern base of the Cascades near Klamath Falls 

 to the Steens Mountains in Harney County. Outside of the counties 

 listed above, where it is a common summer bird frequenting the junipers, 

 we have one record for Wheeler County, where Jewett saw one bird in a 

 juniper tree near Twickenham, June 2.5, 1915. It arrives in April (earliest 

 date, March 31, Jackson County) and remains until September (latest 

 date, October i, Multnomah County). 



Undoubtedly the first published record for Oregon was by Audubon 

 (1839), who listed birds seen along the Columbia River in 1835, pre- 

 sumably by Townsend, one on May 2.3 and others on June 14 and 16. 

 Nuttall (1840) based his original description on a bird seen but not taken 

 at Fort William (Portland), Oregon, May 2.9, 1835. Bendire (1877) pub- 

 lished a record for Canyon City Mountain, which was probably within 

 the present boundaries of Grant County, and Miller (1904) found it in 

 Wheeler County, June z, 1899. 



There have been numerous published breeding records for the species. 

 Johnson (1880) recorded a nest taken June 17, 1879, an< ^ Charles Warren 

 Bowles (i9oia, i9oib, 1902.) contributed a number of notes to the Condor 

 regarding nesting dates from 1901 to 1901. A number of our own nesting 

 records, together with these previously published ones, indicate that 

 fresh eggs are to be found from May 14 to June 2.4, which happen to be 

 the outside dates mentioned by Bowles (1902.) for southern Oregon. 



Townsend's Warbler: 



Dendroica toiunsendi (Townsend) 



DESCRIPTION. "Adult male in spring and summer: Head and throat black, except for 

 bright yellow superciliary and malar streak bordering throat; breast bright yellow 

 fading to white on middle of belly; sides streaked with black; back bright olive 

 green; with black arrow-point streaks; wings and tail blackish, wing with two 

 white bars, tail with inner webs of three lateral feathers white at ends. Adult 

 female in spring and summer: like winter male, but black streaking of upper parts and 

 sides restricted or obsolete; crown sometimes blackish; throat often blotched with 

 black. Adult male in jail and winter: like summer male, but black obscured; crown 

 and hind neck with olive green edges to feathers; cheek patch with olive green tips 

 to feathers; throat lemon yellow; chest and sides spotted with black. Adult female 

 in jail and winter: like summer female, but upper parts slightly brownish, streaks 

 indistinct; sides and flanks brownish. Young male in first fall and winter: like adult 

 winter male, but streaks on crown and back obsolete, and yellow of throat paler. 

 Young jemale in first jail and winter: like adult fall female, but yellow paler, and 

 markings less distinct. Male: length (skins) 4.11-4.80, wing 1.56-1.71, tail 1.89- 

 2.. 01, bill .31-. 35. Female: length (skins) 4.15-4.91, wing 1.48-1.60, tail 1.93-1.97, 

 bill .31-. 39." (Bailey) Nest: In small conifers, made of grasses, plants, skins, or 

 cedar bark, lined with horsehair, moss, etc. Eggs: 3 or 4, white, sprinkled and 

 wreathed with browns and purples. 



