dLACK-POLL WARBLER. 



lighter or darker; forehead and cheeks black; a pale buff 

 patch on the sides of the neck; back ash gray streaked 

 with black; two white wing-bars, and a patch of white 

 on the inner vanes of the outer tail feathers near the tipr 

 under parts white suffused with buff. Female with the 

 crown olive green streaked with black and possibly 

 chestnut; only a suggestion of chestnut on the throat 

 and sides; otherwise duller in color than the male. In 

 autumn male, female, and young birds almost exactly 

 resemble the Black-poll Warbler, except the lighter 

 green upper parts and the buff tone of the lower parts. 

 Nest in evergreen-trees and situated at a Y branch from 

 five to twenty feet above the ground; it is built of 

 grasses and plant fibres, and lined with hairs and plant 

 down. Egg white finely marked with cinnamon brown 

 and olive brown mainly at the larger end. The range 

 of this bird is through eastern North America north to 

 Hudson's Bay; it breeds from northern New England 

 north, and winters in Central America. 



The Bay -breasted Warbler's song is still an enigma to 

 me. The only time I ever saw the handsome little fel- 

 low he would not sing. Rev. J. H. Langille writes: 

 " Their song, said to begin like that of the Black-poll 

 and end like that of the Redstart, bears to my ear no re- 

 semblance whatever to either, but is a very soft warble, 

 somewhat resembling the syllables tse-chee, tse-chee, tse- 

 chee, tse-cJiee, tse-chee, but far too liquid to admit of 

 exact spelling." Mr. Torrey thinks the song resembles 

 that of the Black-poll, but says it is hardly so weak and 

 formless. 



Black- poll This somewhat common bird resembles 



^ndroica the Black and White Warbler in color, 

 striata ' but * ts m arkings are altogether different. 



L. 5.50 inches Crown black; sides of the head white; up- 

 May isth per parts gray streaked with black; two 



white wing-bars, and the inner vanes of the outer tail 

 feathers with white patches on the tip ; under parts 

 white streaked with black, the streaks conspicuous on 

 the gray-white sides. Female olive green above streaked 

 with black; under parts yellowish white. Nest in ever- 



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