NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS EGGS. 



295 



[White.] 

 coniferous 



nests and eggs are in no 

 way different from those of 

 Audubon Warbler. 



657. Magnolia Warbler. 



J)< ndroicd tnaculosa. 



Range. North America 

 east of the Rockies, breed- 

 ing from northern United 

 States to Hudson Bay 

 region and in the Alleghan- 

 ies, south to Pennsylvania. 

 Winters south of our bor- 

 ders. This species, which 

 is one of the most beautiful 

 of the W T arblers, is entirely 

 yellow below and on the 

 rump, the breast and sides 

 being heavily streaked with 

 ^r . black; a 



^JF. large patch 



Jn } n the back 



WjjjW and the ear 

 coverts are 

 black. They 

 build in 

 trees at any 

 elevation from the ground 

 making their nests of root- 

 lets and grass stems., 

 usually lined with hair; 

 the eggs are dull white, 

 specked with pale reddish 

 brown; size .65 x .48. Data. 

 Worcester, Mass., May 

 30, 1895. 4 eggs. Nest of 

 fine rootlets and grasses 

 about 30 feet up on the end 

 of a limb of a pine over- 

 hanging a brook. Collect- 

 or, C. A. Reed. 



658. Cerulean Warbler. 

 Jh'udrolca cseruli. 



Range. United States 

 east of the Plains, breeding 

 chiefly in the northern half 

 of the Mississippi Valley, 

 rare east of the Alleghanies 

 and casual in New Eng- 

 land. The beautiful Warblers are light blue gray above, streaked with black on 

 back, white below, with a grayish blue band on breast and streaks on the sides; 

 they have two wide white wing bars and spots on the outer tail 

 feathers. They are found chieHy in the higher trees where they 

 glean on the foliage; they build also usually above twenty feet 

 from the ground in any kind of tree, placing the nests well out 

 on the horizontal limbs, generally in a fork. The nests are made 

 of fine strips of bark, fibres, rootlets, etc., lined with hair; the 



Photo by J. B. Pardoe. 



NEST OF YELLOW WARBLER. 



[White.] 



eggs are white or pale bluish white, specked with reddish brown: 



eggs are 



size .62 x .48. Data. Fargo, Ontario, June 2, 11)01. Nest in a burr oak, 18 feet 

 from the ground on a horizontal limb. Collector, H. Gould. 



