BIRDS OF 



in summer similar, but slate color less pure or quite brownish. Young, quite 

 brown above, obscurely streaked below. Length, 5^-5! ; wing, 3 ; tail, i\. 



HAB. Eastern North America chiefly, straggling more or less com- 

 monly westward to the Pacific ; breeds from the Northern United States 

 northward, and winters from the Middle States and the Ohio Valley south- 

 ward to the West Indies and Central America. 



Nest, in a low tree or bush ; composed chiefly of hemlock twigs and 

 lined with feathers. 



Eggs, 3 to 5 ; white, marked with brownish-purple. 



The familiar Yellow Rump is the first of the family to arrive 

 in spring, often appearing early in April, and for a time is the 

 one most frequently met with in the woods, where it is observed 

 passing in loose flocks among the upper branches of the trees. 



By the middle of May they have mostly disappeared, and 

 are not again seen in Southern Ontario till the end of September. 

 They linger late in the fall as if unwilling to leave, and many 

 probably do not go much beyond our southern boundary, though 

 none have been known to remain here over the winter. On 

 the Pacific coast this species has been replaced by Dendroica 

 Auduboni (Audubon's Warbler). These two species resemble 

 each other very closely, the principle difference being that in the 

 western species the throat isyellow, while in ours it is white. Our 

 eastern species has frequently been found on the Pacific coast, but 

 in the east the western one has only once been observed, the 

 record being of a specimen taken near Cambridge, Mass., on 

 the 1 5th Nov., 1876. 



259. DENDROICA MACULOSA (GMEL.). 657. 

 Magnolia Warbler. 



Male, in spring, back black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive ; 

 rump yellow ; crown clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, behind 

 the eyes by a white stripe ; forehead and sides of the head black, continuous 

 with that of the back, enclosing the white under eyelid ; entire under parts 

 (except white under tail-coverts) rich yellow, thickly streaked across the breast 

 and along the sides with black, the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting off 

 the definitely bounded immaculate yellow throat from the yellow of the 

 other under parts ; wing-bars white, generally fused into one patch ; tail 

 spots small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on all the feathers except 



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