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' Eastern North America, breeding from northern New England 

 north to Hudson Bay, and wintering in the tropics. This is one 

 of our rarest spring migrants, passing northward about May 15. 

 In the fall migration immature birds are sometimes not uncommon. 



*2p4. Dendroica aestiva (Gmel.\ YELLOW WARBLER. (652.) 

 North America, except southwestern States, breeding northward 

 to the Arctic Regions and wintering as far south as northern South 

 America. This bird is one of our common summer residents. It 

 arrives from the south about May 5 and remains until September. 

 (See Group, Gallery, between Cases N and O.) 



*295. Dendroica caerulescens (Gmel.\ BLACK-THROATED 

 BLUE WARBLER. (654.) Eastern North America, breeding from 

 northern Minnesota (probably) and Connecticut (rarely) northward 

 to Labrador, and south along the crest of the Alleghanies to Ge- 

 orgia. It is one of our common migrant Warblers, passing north- 

 ward early in May and returning in September. 



*296. Dendroica coronata (Linn.). 

 MYRTLE WARBLER; YELLOW-RUMPED 

 WARBLER, (655.) Eastern North Ame- 

 rica, breeding from northern Minnesota 

 and northern New England northward, 

 and wintering from the Middle States 

 southward. This species is an abundant 

 FIG. 28. MYRTLE WARBLER, migrant in our vicinity and in favorable 

 localities where food is abundant, it passes the whole winter. 

 Migrants begin to arrive in early April, and the southward migration 

 takes place during the latter part of September and October. 



*297. Dendroica maculosa (GmelJ). MAGNOLIA WARBLER. 

 (657.) Eastern North America, breeding from northern Michigan 

 and northern New England to Hudson Bay, and southward along 

 the Alleghanies to Pennsylvania, and wintering in Central America. 

 In this vicinity it is a common migrant, passing northward early 

 in May and returning late in August and in September. 



298. Dendroica caerulea (Wils.). CERULEAN WARBLER, 

 (658.) Breeds in the Mississippi Valley as far north as Minnesota, 

 and eastward as far as Lockport, N. Y. (Davisori), and winters in 

 the tropics. Its occurrence here is accidental and there are but 

 two records of its capture, one of a male taken in Kings County, 

 L. I. (Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, p. 277), and one of a male taken at 



