292 BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



The Blackburnian Warbler is known in central North Carolina mainly as a fall 

 transient, at which season it has been observed at Raleigh from September 10 to 

 October 13. At Durham it has been taken by Seeman on May 3 and October 24, 

 1906, and at Chapel Hill by Pearson on October 16, 1897. 



FIG. 235. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



In the mountains it is a common summer visitor, arriving about the middle of 

 April, and leaving the latter part of September. In Buncombe County Cairns has 

 recorded it as breeding at an elevation of about 3,500 feet. Brewster reported it 

 as abundant in late May, 1885, in Jackson and Macon counties, everywhere above 

 3,000 feet, and as one of the most common birds at Highlands and on the crest of 

 the Cowee Mountain range. Twenty-three years later Sherman and C. S. Brimley 

 passed through the same region in early May and saw only a single bird, although 

 a sharp lookout was maintained. They took a male in full breeding condition 

 about halfway up Joanna Bald Mountain, near Andrews, on May 14, 1908. Bruner 

 has taken this bird at Blowing Rock in summer. Rhoads records it as breeding 

 on Roan Mountain. Feild and Bruner found it common on Grandfather Mountain 

 in June, 1911. 



The nest is built in a coniferous tree, often being placed on a horizontal limb. 

 It is bulky, for a warbler's, and is usually a densely woven mass of small twigs, 

 vegetable down, and rootlets, lined with horsehair and feathers. The eggs are usu- 

 ally four, greenish white in color, speckled with brown and gray chiefly around the 

 larger end. Size .69 x .50. 



295. Dendroica dominica dominica (Linn.} . YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



Description: Ad. male. A yellow line in front of the eye and a white line over it; upperparts 

 gray, forehead blackish; wings and tail edged with grayish, two white wing-bars; outer tail- 

 feathers with white patches near their tips; cheeks and sides of the throat black; a white patch 

 on the side of the neck; throat and breast yellow, belly white, sides streaked with black. Ad. 

 female. Similar, but with less black on the head, throat, and neck. L., 5.25; W., 2.60; T., 2.01; 

 B., .49. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. South Atlantic States from Maryland southward, wintering in the West Indies, 

 Florida, and along the Atlantic coast locally to South Carolina. 



Range in North Carolina. Whole State in summer, except the higher parts of the mountain 

 region. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler reaches North Carolina in spring about the last 

 week in March and has been observed as late as the middle of September. In the 



