288 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



tiful warbler as a regular and moderately common summer resident in 

 the mountainous districts of romantic Ly coming- county. Its nests have 

 been taken, it is said, in low bushes in Crawford county. I have taken 

 several of these warblers in Centre, McKean and Susquehanna counties 

 late in June and early in August. This species is generally found in 

 woods or thickets, but often, when migrating (especially in spring), these 

 birds visit orchards. Commonly seen singly or in pairs, but occasion- 

 ally in spring I have seen companies of six to eight together and in one 

 instance a dozen of these bright orange-throated beauties were observed 

 feeding together in a couple of beech trees in a woods along the 

 Youghiogheny river in Fay ette 'county. Food about the same as that 

 of the Black-poll. 



Dendroica dominica (LiNN.). 



Yellow-throated "Warbler. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sexes (adults) alike. Length about 5j ; extent about 8. Bill and legs black. 

 Bill is long, measuring along exposed culrnen .48 (average of six specimens), much 

 compressed and sharp pointed ; maxilla somewhat curved. Above plain bluish- 

 gray and unstreaked ; edges of middle and greater coverts lorm two white wing 

 bands ; inner webs of three pairs of outer tail-feathers spotted with white toward 

 the end. Top of head to about middle of eyes black ; lores and patch on sides of 

 head, continuous with patch on sides of neck, deep black ; a white spot below eye is 

 encircled by black which borders the bright yellow throat patch ; six specimens 

 before me have yellow of chin separated from bill by a few white feathers ; white area 

 on side of neck separating black from bluish-gray ; under parts, except as already 

 mentioned, white, conspicuously streaked on sides with black. A long stripe runs 

 from base of maxilla to nape, this stripe from bill and almost reaching the eye is 

 usually yellow, then it becomes pure white. 



Habitat. Southeastern United States, north to the Middle States, and rarely to 

 southern New England ; south in winter to the West Indies. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler is a very rare and irregular summer 

 visitor in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. Dr. W. P. Turnbull 

 includes this species in his list of stragglers in the lower counties of 

 eastern Pennsylvania. The late C. D. Wood, of Philadelphia, showed 

 me a pair of these warblers which he had captured about the middle of 

 June in Delaware county. I have in my collection two specimens shot 

 in Chester county, both are males, one was taken June 27, 1879, the 

 other July, 1885. It is possible that this southern bird occasionally 

 breeds within or near our southern borders. In the numerous reports 

 which I have received from various observers in different parts of 

 Pennsylvania no mention is made of the Yellow-throated Warbler. In 

 the winter of 1885 I found this species in small flocks and quite abund- 

 ant in pine, palmetto and oak trees at different points along the St. 

 John's river, from Palatka southward to Sanford. Feeds on beetles, 

 larvae, ants, spiders, etc. 



