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Habitat. Western United States, east to the western border of the plains ; south 

 in winter to Guatemala. Accidental in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. 



On the 8th of November, 1889, I captured a fine adult female of this 

 species in an apple orchard in Chester county. This is the only speci- 

 men of this decidedly western bird that has ever been taken in Penn- 

 sylvania, and but one other specimen * of Audubon's Warbler has been 

 recorded east of its common range. I found this bird in company with 

 some Snow-birds (Junco hyemalis) and White-throated Sparrows. In 

 its stomach a few seeds and fragments of beetles were found. The 

 feathers about its bill were more or less soiled evidently by juices of 

 berries on which it had been feeding. 



Dendroica maculosa (GMBL.). 



Magnolia Warbler. 



DESCRIPTION {Plate 94, Male). 



Length (average of seven males) 4.90 ; extent (average of seven males) 7.35 ; wing 

 (average of seven males) 2.40. Female usually somewhat smaller. 



Male, in spring. Bill and legs blackish ; crown grayish slate-blue ; black feathers 

 of forehead and lores continuous with a black streak below and a wider one behind 

 eye that joins the triangular black space on back (the black back feathers are in 

 many specimens edged with yellowish-green) below bright yellow streaked or 

 blotched (except on chin, throat and middle portion of abdomen) with black ; under 

 tail-coverts white ; all tail-feathers, except central pair, have white spots on inner 

 webs in middle ; rump yellow : two wing bars or a white patch ; upper tail-coverts 

 black ; white streak back of eye. 



Female similar but much duller. The young are quite different. Top of head 

 and neck behind ashy-gray, back greenish-olive ; upper tail-coverts black, with ex- 

 tensive grayish edgings ; below chiefly yellow, the streaks of black being mainly on 

 sides, can be recognized by peculiar white tail markings previously described, the 

 yellowruinp and under parts; maxilla brownish ; mandible yellowish, and legs paler 

 than in adult. 



Habitat. Eastern North America to the base of the Rocky mountains, breeding 

 from northern New England, northern New York and northern Michigan, to 

 Hudson's Bay territory. In winter, Bahamas, Cuba and Central America. 



This active and beautiful warbler arrives in Pennsylvania early in 

 May and departs in September. Inhabits woodland chiefly, but often 

 when migrating is seen in orchards and gardens. As a bird of passage 

 it is quite common and very generally distributed throughout the state ; 

 and it also breeds regularly, but not abundantly, in many sections of the 

 mountain districts. I have seen Magnolia Warblers, in midsummer, in 

 the mountains of Blair, McKean and Cameron counties, and their nests 

 have been found in Crawford, Sullivan and Somerset counties, where, I 

 am reliably informed, they breed regularly. The Magnolia Warbler can 

 easily be recognized by its showy dress of black and yellow and the 

 conspicuous broad white band on middle of tail feathers. Mr. Bidg- 



* A male D. audubonl was captured by Mr. A. M. Frazer at Cambridge, Mass.. November 15, 1876. 

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