226 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGT. 



DENDEOICA CORONATA. — GVat/. 



The Yellow-rumped Warbler. 



Motacilla coronata, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat, L (1766) 333. Gm. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 

 974. 



Sylvia coronata, Wilson. Am. Cm., IL (1810) 138. Nutt. Man., L (1832) 361 

 Aud. Orn. Biog., IL (1834) 303. 



Description. 



Above bluish-ash, streaked with black ; under parts white ; the fore part of breast 

 and the sides black, the feathers mostly edged with white; crown, rump, and sides 

 of breast yellow ; cheeks and lores black ; the eyelids and a superciliary stripe, two 

 bands on the wing, and spots on the outer three tail feathers, white. Female, of 

 duller plumage, and browner above. 



Length, five and sixty-five one-hundredths inches ; wing, three inches ; tail, two 

 and fifty one-hundreths inches. 



The Yellow-rumped or Golden-crowned Warbler is very 

 abundant in all parts of New England as a spring and fall 

 visitor. It arrives from the South about the 20th of April, 

 and passes quickly northward. But few breed south of 

 S'(^ a ^ *^^® northern parts of Maine, 

 and probably not a great many 

 pass the season of incubation 

 there. When with us in the 

 spring, they are found in the 

 ^^^ l^,'*^,^^^^ pastures, woods, orchards, and 



"* " swamps, equally distributed, 



and evincing no partiality for 

 any particular locality. They 

 are then very active, and are constantly engaged in their 

 search for insects. 



Their note is nothing but a kind of tchip and a tinkling 

 tweeter, which they utter occasionally, both while on the 

 wing and while perching. 



I have heard of no nest being found in either of the 

 southern New-England States, — have met with but one in 

 Massachusetts, and have heard of but two or three others. 



