BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 311 



Black-throated Green Warbler: Dendroica virens. 

 (See Fig. 192, p. 347.) 



Adult male, throat and sides black, forming 1 an inverted V of 

 black; cheeks bright yellow; tail strikingly marked with white. 

 Female and young, similar, but with black obscured. Length, 

 about 5 inches. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Eastern North America ; breeds 

 from northern Illinois and Connecticut northward to Hudson 

 Bay and southward along the Alleghanies to South Carolina ; 

 winters in the tropics. 



In migration this is one of the most welcome 

 birds to the would-be ornithologist, because it is 

 so easily recognized. The black inverted V of its 

 under parts (A), the yellow cheeks and large 

 areas of white on the tail, are unmistakable. 



But in the nesting-season we are glad to meet 

 it for other reasons. At sound of its leisurely, 



woodsy \/ , zee-ee-ee, zee-ah-ee, in 



which Mr. Torrey hears trees, trees, murmuring 

 trees, the forest grows more silent, the solitude 

 becomes more protected, and the world with its 

 hurry and care fades away far behind the ' aisles 

 of the forest dim;' for with such small, wood- 

 land voices Mother Nature soothes her tired 

 children to rest. 



