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orchard trees, our shade trees, our evergreens, and even our 

 shrubbery and garden plants. Though not, I trust, altogether 

 useless, the above remarks seem almost unnecessary, as very 

 fortunately the Warblers have never, I believe, been perse- 

 cuted. 



d. The ordinary notes of the Yellow " Red-polls " are a 

 chip, which sometimes is closely repeated several times, and a 

 chuck, which is less loud than that of the Snow-birds, but much 

 more mellow. They have also in spring a few expressive twit- 

 ters, a few rather weak musical notes, and their true song-note, 

 which is a whistled trill, less sweet and smooth than that of 

 the Pine Warbler. It is possible that in their summer homes 

 these birds produce a fuller song, but I have no evidence of 

 it. I am, moreover, inclined to think that they never sing 

 very agreeably. 



L. CORONATA. Yellow^rumped Warbler. " Yellow- 

 rump" "Myrtle Bird" "Willow Warbler." A very 

 common migrant through Massachusetts.* 



a. About 5 inches long. $ , in spring and summer, slaty ; 

 black-streaked. Wings, browner, and concealing the rump, 

 when closed. Throat and belly, white. Crown, rump, and 

 a patch on the side of the breast, bright yellow. Wing-bars, 

 etc., white. $ , in fall and winter, and <j> , generally browner, 

 with less pure colors. Young, brown above, and white below, 

 with a few slender side-streaks sometimes extending across the 

 breast ; rnmp, yellow. Various intermediate stages of color- 

 ation also exist. 



b. ' The nest is usually placed in a bush, is constructed of 

 various soft materials, and is lined with horsehairs, down, or 

 some other suitable material." Mr. Maynard speaks of nests 

 found in northern Maine in early June, all of which " con- 

 tained four fresh eggs," as being built in low spruces about 



* In southern New England an abun- the coast as far as Scarboro, Maine. It 



dant early spring and late autumn mi- breeds commonly in parts of Worcester 



grant, also found regularly in winter, and Berkshire counties, Massachusetts, 



often in large numbers, throughout and throughout most of northern New 



southern Connecticut, on Cape Cod. and England. W. B. 

 at various localities northward along 



