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WOOD WARBLERS. 



bright colors and preference for gardens, orohr.rds, the slirubb^ry of 

 our lawns or busliy brooksides, instead of the wcK)ds, frequently brings 

 it to the attention of those to whom most birds are strangers. 



It is an active bird, and its song — wee-chee, chee, chee, cher-wee — 

 though simple, has a pleasing, happy ring. 



654. Dendroica caerulescens (Gmel.). Black-tiiroatkd Blie 



Wauki.kii. ./(/. <? . — Upper jttirts jjfniyisli Mue, biu'k soinetiiiK's bluckisli ; 

 wiii'^s unci tail i'd;j;*''l with blui! ; bnnc of tJw primariin white, forniiuLr a whito 

 («pot on the wiujj at the cud of the priiuury coverts ; inner vanes of outer tuil- 



Fia. 101— Black-throated Blue Warbler. (Reduced.) 



FJ I 



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

 sides mixed black and white; breast and belly white. Ad. i . — L'pper parts 

 uniform olive-green ; tail generally with a faint bluish tinge, the white patch 

 on the outer featiicrs scarcely distinguishable; white at the base of the prima- 

 ries much reduced and sometimes concealed by the prinuiry coverts; ear-cov- 

 erts dusky gray ; under i)ans soiled butfy yellowish. Im. i . — Similar to ad. 

 S , 1)Ut the upper parts washed with greenish, the throat tipped with white, 

 and less black on the siiles. Im. 9 . — Similar to ad. 9 , but somewhat yellower. 

 L., 5-2.S; W., l-rrl ; T., 20(5 ; B. from N., -20. 



h'emnrhi. — The white spot at the base of the primaries is the distinguish- 

 ing mark of this species. 



A'a ;/</(. —Eastern North America; breeds from northern ilinnesota (,prob- 



