ONTARIO. 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Rocky Mountains, north to Green- 

 land, the Barren Grounds and Alaska, breeding from Northern New England 

 northward. South in winter to Northern South America. 



Nest, in an evergreen, 8 or 10 feet from thi ground ; built of larch twigs 

 woven together with moss and grass, and lined with fine grass. 



Eggs, 5 ; white, spotted with purple and reddish-brown. 



The Black-poll is a regular visitor in Southern Ontario in 

 spring and fall. It is the last of the family to arrive from the 

 south, being seldom seen before the 2oth of May. Its stay at this 

 time is of short duration, and when it goes the collector con- 

 siders the Warbler season is over. In the fall they are again seen 

 in increased numbers, many being in the young plumage, and 

 not in such haste to depart, although none remain over the 

 winter. 



The musical powers, if they have any, are not exercised in 

 this latitude, the birds while here being mostly silent. They 

 feed largely on winged insects, which are never plentiful till the 

 end of May, and this may account for the Black-polls being late 

 in arriving in spring. 



264. DENDROICA BLACKBURNI^E. (GMEL.). 662. 

 Blackburn j an Warbler. 



Male, in spring, back black, more or less interrupted with yellowish ; 

 crown black, with a central orange spot ; a broad black stripe through the eye, 

 enclosing the orange under eyelid; rest of head, with whole throat, most bril- 

 liant orange or flame color; other under parts whitish, more or less tinged 

 with yellow, and sides streaked with black ; wing-bars fused into a large white 

 patch ; tail blotches white, occupying nearly all the outer feathers; bill and 

 feet dark. Female and young male, upper parts olive and black, streaked ; 

 superciliary line and throat clear yellow, fading insensibly on the breast ; lower 

 eyelid yellow, confined in the dusky ear-patch ; wing patch resolved into two 

 bars ; tail blotches nearly as extensive as in the adult male, the outer feathers 

 showing white on the outer webs at base. Length, 5^; wing, 2; tail, 2j. 



HAB. Eastern North America to the Plains, breeding from the northern 

 and more elevated parts of the Eastern United States northward; in winter, 

 south to the Bahamas, Central America and Northern South America. 



Nest, in an evergreen, 20 feet from the ground; built of twigs, grass and 

 moss, and lined with fine fibre, hair and feathers. 



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