BIRDS OF 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Plains, north to the Fur Countries, 

 breeding from the Northern United States northward. Mexico in winter. 



Nest, on the ground ; composed of withered leaves and strips of bark, 

 lined with fine grass, pine needles or hair. 



Eggs, 4 ; white, speckled with lilac or reddish-brown. 



The Nashville Warbler, although an abundant species, 

 is not very regular in its visits to this part of Ontario ; being 

 sometimes with us in considerable numbers during the season of 

 migration, and again being almost or altogether absent. When 

 they pass this way in the spring a few pairs usually remain 

 over che summer with us, but the greater number go on farther 

 north. In the fall they are again seen in limited numbers, 

 working their way southward in company with their young, 

 which are distinguished by the absence of the crown patch. In 

 this part of Ontario we never see as great a number of Warblers 

 in the fall as we do in spring. Either they are less conspicuous 

 on account of the time of their migration extending over a longer 

 period, or they have some other return route by which the 

 majority find their way south. 



252. HELMINTHOPHILA CELATA (SAY.). 646, 

 Orange -crowned Warbler. 



Above olive-green, rather brightest on the rump, never ashy on the head ; 

 below greenish-yellow, washed with olive on the sides ; crown with a more or 

 less concealed orange-brown patch (sometimes wanting) ; eye ring and ob- 

 scure superciliary line wanting. Length, 4.80-5.20 ; extent, 7.40-7.75 ; wing, 

 2.30-2.50. 



HAB. Eastern North America (rare, however, in the North-eastern 

 United States), breeding as far northward as the Yukon and Mackenzie 

 River districts, and southward through the Rocky Mountains, and wintering 

 in the South Atlantic and Gulf States and Mexico. 



Nest, on the ground ; composed of leaves, bark fibre and fine grass. 

 Eggs, 4 to 6 ; white, marked with spots and blotches of reddish-brown. 



The range of this species is chiefly along the west coast or 

 middle district of the continent. In the east it occurs rarely. As 

 a straggler I have met with it only on two occasions, the lattei 

 being on the nth May, 1886, when a specimen was taken at the 



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