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WAKBLEKS. 



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1. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, P. BLACKBURNIAE. 

 4.80; throat, upper breast, spot on top of head and behind 

 Fig. 319. ear coverts, and line over eye, bright 



orange ; upper parts, streaked with 

 whitish ; lower parts behind, yellow, 

 fig. 319. Female, similar but brown- 

 ish above with the orange markings 

 duller. Breeds from the southern 

 Alleghanies and Mich, north through 

 the mountains of western Mass, to 

 Labrador; not very common on the 

 eastern coast of II. S. ; winters in 

 north-western S. A. ; south in Sep. : 

 north in May. Frequents evergreen 

 and sometimes other woodlands. 

 Song, a series of about six double 

 lisping notes which become some- 

 what squeaky as they advance, and terminate in an ascend- 

 ing scale. 



k. Green Warblers. Vireocaiitor. 

 Small; bills, rather slender; wings, slightly rounded, not 

 reaching beyond middle of tail, both coverts of which do not 

 reach beyond its middle ; two w r ing bars ; tail spots, large ; 

 bright green above. Type, Motacilla virens Gmelin. Ances- 

 tral origin, Central America. 



1. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, Y. VIRENS. 

 5.00; cheeks and forehead, yellow; throat, and streaks on 

 sides, black, fig. 320. Female, throat more or less yellow, 

 thus encroaching on the black patch. Young, with less black 

 on breast. Breeds in eastern K. A. from Conn, and southern 

 111. north to Hudson Bay and south along the Alleghanies 

 to S. C. ; winters in Central America ; south in Sep. ; north in 

 May. Abundant in white pine woodlands and less so among 

 pitch pines. Song, of five or six notes, "Good Saint The-re- 

 sa" given with a rising inflection and with a decided accent 

 on the last syllable ; another song, usually given in late sum- 



