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184. Dendroica sestiva (GMEL.). 652. 



W W ; i-l.l.-r. 



An abundant summer resident. Breeds. 



185. Dendroica caemlescens (GMEL.). 654. 



Black-throated Blue Warbler. 



Not uncommon during migrations. A quite local summer 

 resident in northern part of the County. Breeds. In addition 

 to the nest recorded in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitho- 

 logical Club, Vol. 5, page 233, three nests have been taken, 

 May 29th and June 14th, 1886, near Holland Patent. They were 

 all placed in maple bushes, from nine inches to two feet from the 

 ground, in heavy timber grown up with maple brush. They were 

 loose structures, placed in an upright fork, and composed in all 

 three cases of strips of rotten wood held together and lined with 

 fine black roots, and in one case further secured with strips of 

 the inner bark of deciduous trees, and measured, outside diameter, 

 from three to three and a half inches; inside diameter, from one 

 and three-quarters to two and a quarter inches ; outside depth, 

 three and three-quarters to five inches; inside depth, one and a 

 half inches. The two sets of eggs which seemed normal, consisted 

 of four eggs each, one set, pinkish, quite heavily marked and 

 blotched with dark brownish pink, especially at the larger end, 

 and a few fine marks and scratches of a darker color ; rather blunt 

 at the small end, and large for the bird, measuring .75 x .54, 

 .72x.55, .76x.54, .72 x .52 inches. The other set was white, 

 rather sparsely marked with lilac and brown spots and dots, 

 heaviest at the large end. In shape and general appearance re- 

 sembling a Redstart's, and measured .66 x.50, .64x.51, .66 x.51, 

 64x.51. 



186. Dendroica coronata (LINN.). 655. 



OTyrtle Warbler. 



An abundant spring and fall migrant. " Breeds plentifully in 

 the Adirondacks." (Merriam.) 



