THE BIRD BOOK 





Black-throated Warblers 

 Golden-cheeked Warblers 



665. BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. Den- 



droica nigrescens. 



Range. United States from the Rockies to the 

 Pacific coast and north to British Columbia; win- 

 ters south of our borders. 



The general color of this species 

 is grayish above and white below as 

 is a superciliary line and stripe 

 down the side of the throat; the 

 crown, cheeks and throat are black 

 and there is a yellow spot in front 

 Greenish white of the eye. They inhabit woodland 

 and thickets and are common in 

 such localities from Arizona to Oregon, nesting 

 usually at low elevations in bushes or shrubs; 

 the the nests are made of grasses and fibres, 

 woven together, and lined with hair or fine 

 grasses, resembling, slightly, nests of the Yellow 

 Warbler. The eggs are white or greenish white, 

 specked with reddish brown and umber. Size 

 .65 x .52. Data. Waldo, Oregon, June 1, 1901. 

 Nest 3 feet from the ground in a small oak in 

 valley. Collector, C. W. Bowles. (Crandall col- 

 lection.) 



666. GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER. Dendroica 



chrysoparia. 



Range. Central and southern Texas south to 

 Central America. 



This beautiful and rare species 

 is entirely black above and on the 

 throat, enclosing a large bright yel- 

 low patch about the eye and a 

 small one on the crown. In their 

 very restricted United States range, 



White 



the birds are met with in cedar timber where they 

 nest at low elevations in the upright forks of young trees of this variety. Their 

 nests are made of strips of cedar bark, interwoven with plant fibres and spider 

 webs making compact nests, which they line with hair and feathers. Their 

 three or four eggs are white, dotted and specked with reddish brown and umber. 

 Si2e .75 x .55. 



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