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*274. (663a) Dendroica dominica albilora RIDGWAY. 



Sycamore Warbler. 

 Synonym, WHITE-BROWED, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



Adult. Sexes alike; above, blue-gray, the back not streaked; a line 

 over eye, yellow in front; white behind; sides of neck and two wing- 

 bars, white; forehead, sides of- head and sides of neck and streaks on 

 sides of body, black; throat, yellow; other lower parts, white. 



Length, 4.50-5.50; wing, 2.50-2.65; tail, 2.00-2.25; bill, .45-.4S. 



EANGE. Eastern North America, from Honduras; north in Mis- 

 sissippi Valley to Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Ohio; 

 east to North Carolina. Breeds from Texas and Mississippi, north. 

 Winters from lower Eio Grande Valley, south. 



Nest, in fork, far out on a high limb, usually of a sycamore. 



The Sycamore Warbler is a common summer resident along the 

 streams of southern Indiana, where timber containing sycamore trees is 

 found It is very common, particularly in the spring, along the White- 

 water Eiver as far up as Brookville. There, but few ascend the east 

 fork of that stream, and it is consequently rare at Eichmond, while it is 

 common along the west fork to Laurel, and has been taken at Conners- 

 ville. It is common up the Wabash Valley to Park and Montgomery 

 Counties, where I found it May 19 and 20, 1887, along the Valley 

 of Sugar Creek, and to Carroll County; also up the White Eiver Valley 

 to Indianapolis. Higher up the Wabash they are rare and, perhaps, 

 in some places, of accidental occurrence. They have been reported 

 during the breeding season from Greencastle (Hughes, Earlle), and 

 Lafayette (L. A. and C. D. Test), where they are rare, as they also 

 are at Ft. Wayne (Stockbridge). They range north into Michigan, 

 where, in Monroe County, they were reported tolerably common to 

 1887, but are now rare (Trombley), and to the vicinity of Detroit. 

 They also cross Ohio, being tolerably common as far as Columbus 

 (Wheaton), and are found near Cleveland (Forest and Stream, Vol. 

 VI., 1876, p. 300). They have not been found in. the Kankakee 

 Valley, or north of it, in this State, yet it has been noted rarely in 

 northern Illinois. The coincidence* of the range of this species with 

 that of the Cerulean Warbler is. notable. Yet they occupy entirely 

 different ground, thus complementing each other. The Sycamore 

 Warbler does not depart from the vicinity of streams, even following 

 small creeks, along which sycamores grow, for quite a distance towards 

 their source. They seem to prefer these trees, spending much time 

 among their highest branches, but they may also be found among all 

 the trees fringing waterways, sometimes quite near the ground, and 



