556 HISTORY OF THE 



but clear and sweet, and, when perched upon the top of a tree, 

 quite prolonged; as a rule, however, they are too restless to re- 

 main long in a place, and generally warble in broken notes, or 

 snatches, as they flit actively among the boughs. 



On the llth of June, I had the pleasure of finding, at Grand 

 Manan, N. B., a nest containing four eggs, in a little spruce, not 

 over three feet in height. The nest was built on the top of a 

 spreading branch, six inches from the body of the tree and two 

 feet from the ground. It was composed almost wholly of small, 

 slim stems of weeds, and thickly lined with jet black, hair-like 

 rootlets, in marked contrast with the dull, faded nest. Eggs: 

 .60x.48, . 63x. 50, . 65x. 50, . G8x. 50; creamy white, rather spar- 

 ingly spotted with umber to reddish brown and lilac, thickest 

 and sometimes confluent around the larger end; in form, oval. 



Dendroica cserulea (WILS.). 



CERULEAN WARBLER. 

 PLATE XXXIL 



Summer resident in the eastern part of the State; common; 

 rare westward. Arrive the last of April; begin laying the last 

 of May. The bulk leave early in September; a few occasionally 

 linger until the first of October. 



B. 201. K. 98. C. 118. G. 44, 283. TJ. .658. 



HABITAT. Eastern United States and southern Canada; west 

 to the Great Plains; rare or casual east of central New York 

 and the Alleghanies; south in winter to western Cuba, Yucatan, 

 Honduras and Panama. 



SP. CHAR. "Male: Above, bright blue, darkest on the crown, tinged with 

 ash on the rump; middle of back, scapulars, upper tail coverts and sides of the 

 crown streaked with black; beneath, white; a collar across the breast and 

 streak on the sides dusky, blue; lores, and a line through and behind the eye 

 (where it is bordered above by whitish), dusky blue; paler on the cheeks. Two 

 white bands on the wing; all the tail feathers except the innermost with a white 

 patch on the inner web near the end. Female: Greenish blue above, brightest 

 on the crown; beneath, white, tinged with greenish yellow, and obsoletely 

 streaked on the sides; eyelids and a superciliary line greenish white. The 

 autumnal adult plumage of both sexes is in every respect exactly like the spring 

 dress. Young males in late summer are very similar to adult females, but are 

 purer white below, and less uniform greenish blue above, the dark stripes on 

 sides of the crown and black centers to scapulars being quite conspicuous; the 



