WOOD WARBLEllS. 



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nciir the 

 unci ol>- 



heir tips, 



the onter vano of tlic outer featlier wliite at tht; base; a yellow line over the 

 eye; lorcH and a ereseent below tlie eye blaek ; under part.s bright yellow; 

 sides iieavily streaked with blaek. Ail. 9 . — Similar, but with less, and sonie- 

 tinies no ehestnut-rutbus in the back. Jiii. — I'l^ier parts unit'orm ashy olivi-- 

 green; no apparent wing-bars; outer tail-feathers with white on their inner 

 webs at the tips; ear-eoverts ashy; under parts yellow; sides iiulistinetly 

 Btroaked with Ijlaekish. L., 4-7ri; W., ii-L'O; T., 1-'J5; B. from N., -28. 



y('«/««;'i(-y.— The ehestnut-rufous patch in the baek at onee ideiitifies the 

 adults; but the young are puzzling birds, to be known ohietiy by their small 

 Bize, absence of wing-bars and streaks on the sides. 



KaiKje. — Eastern United States ; breeds from Florida to Mieliigan ami 

 Massachusetts; winters fmin southern Florida south wanl. 



Wushinvton, very common S. R., Apl. 20 to Sept. Sing Sing, rare S. K., 

 May 2 to Sept. 14. Cambridge, locally common S. K., May 8 to Sept. 15. 



Sent, of plant fibers and plant down, lined with rootlets and long hairs, in 

 briary bushes. K<j(js, four to five, white, spotted distinctly and obscurely with 

 cinnamon- or olive-brown, or chestnut, chielly in a wreatli at the larger end, 

 •Ot X -48. 



The Yellow, Palm, and Prairie Warblers are the three " Wood 

 Warblers " that are rarely found in the \vt)ods. The latter, however, 

 diflfers decidedly in habits from either of the former. It is a rather 

 retiring inhabitant of scrubby clearings, bushy fields, and pastures, or 

 thickets of young pines and cedars. But while the Prairie, if silent, 

 migiit readily escape observation, no one with an ear for bird niu.sic 

 will pass within sound of a singing bird without at least trying to 

 solve the mystery of its peculiar notes, a series of six or seven quickly 

 repeated zees, the next to the last one the highest. 



674* Seiurusaurocapillus (A /»».). Oven-rird; Goluen-crowneh 



TriKirsii. (Fig. 104.) Ail. — Center of the crown pale rufous or ocliraceous- 

 butl', bordered on either side by black lines ; rest of the ujiper parts, wings, 

 and tail brownish olive-green; no wing-bars or tail-patches; under parts 

 white: the sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with black. L., 

 6-17; W., nOO; T., 2-1 :>; B. from N., -35. 



Ti'awf/*'.— Kastern North America; breeds from Kansas and Virginia north- 

 ward to Manitoba and Labrador, southward along the -Vlleghanies to South 

 Carolina; winters from Florida southward. 



Washington, very common S. U., .\pl. 2^ to Oct. 15. Sing Sing, common 

 S. K., Apl. 27 to Oct. 10. Cambridge, abundant S. K., May ti to Sept. 15. 



Ni'< bulky, covered, the entrance r.c one side, of coarse grasses, weed 

 stalks, leaves, and rootlets, on the gnnm i. /.>/;/*>•. four to five, white, speckled 

 or spotted with cinnamon - or rufous-brown markiuirs, sometimes finely dis- 

 tributed, sometimes confluent about tlu larger end, -m x -tlO. 



Dtiring the nesting season 0'. en-birds are among our commonest 

 woodland birds. We hear them everywhere ; one singer scarcely ceases 

 before another begin.s. But ■when the song period has passed how 



