MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 



and Nantucket, many of which remain through the 

 winter. 



The Myrtle Warbler is an indifferent songster. His 

 call-note is a familiar and characteristically staccato 

 tchip, and his song is not unlike that of the Chipping 

 Sparrow, a monotonous, wiry, and thin tswe, tswe, tswe, 

 tswe, tsive, etc., pitched beyond the keyboard limit, thus: 



This is the only record I possess of this Warbler's song; 

 consequently 1 can not promise that it is an absolutely 

 typical specimen. Possibly other birds might sing in 

 a way that would prove this theme had its variations, 

 but I have my doubts about that. 



Magnolia This is another streaky-marked bird 



Warbler which is easily identified. His less com- 



^endroica . ,, TI i j AT u 



*naculosa mon name 1S tne Black and Yellow 



L. 5. 10 inches Warbler and he may be aesthetically con- 

 May i sth sidered a color symphony in those two 

 contrasting tones. Crown ashen gray bordered by a 

 narrow line of white, a decidedly bluer gray in spring 

 specimens; the forehead and sides of the face well below 

 and back of the eye black; upper parts black bordered 

 with olive green; lower parts, throat, and rump bright 

 yellow; breast and sides strongly striped with black; 

 tail black with the inner vanes of all except the middle 

 feathers white-patched midway, leaving the terminal 

 third black; a large white patch on the wing-coverts. 

 Female similarly marked but the colors duller and less 

 sharply defined. Nest generally in evergreen-trees, built 

 of fine twigs, leaf stems, moss, and rootlets, lined with 

 finer material of the same nature; it is generally from 

 three to six feet above the ground. Egg white marked 

 about the larger end with cinnamon br,own and olive 

 brown. This bird is common throughout eastern North 

 America; it breeds from northern New England and 

 Michigan north to Hudson's Bay, and south along the 

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