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recent description of it was published, I was convinced that Audubon's 

 statement, that it nested on low trees and bushes, was not true of the bird in 

 this latitude. Three nests of this bird have been described; one, by Dr. 

 Brewer, from Drummondsville, Ontario, Canada, the others, from East Peu- 

 field, Monroe Co. N. Y., and Mount Carmel,Illinoie, by Prof. J. A. Allen. 

 These were all in trees from 20 to 50 feet from the ground. They 

 were constructed of grasses and fibres of bark, lined with fine grass, 

 and more or less completely covered with lichen, bound on with spiders 

 webs. The eggs are dull creamy white, more or less thickly covered with 

 blotches of reddish brown. They measure .60 by .47 of an inch. 



During the mating season the males have severe and long continued 

 contests. I have seen them fight for hours, often resting from sheer ex- 

 haustion. To these contests the female appears to be no:^ only a disin- 

 terested but uninterested spectator, and, keeping in the lower branches 

 of the trees, eats and wipes her bill, and eats and wipes her bill, as if 

 considerations of celibacy, monogamy or polygamy never entered her 

 head. The young are fledged by the last of June. 



Dendrceca coronata (L.) Gr. 



"VTello'w^-r'u.inped. Warbler- 



Sylvia coronata, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog Snrv., 1338, 163, 181. 



Sylvicola coronata, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 407 ; Proo. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 

 1853, 395. 



Dendroka coronata, Whkaton, Ohio Agric. Eep. for 18f;0,363 ; Reprint, 1861, 5. 



"Dendroeca coronata, Whbaton, Food' of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. 'Eep. for 1874, 563 ; Re- 

 print, 187.">, 3. — Langdon, Cat. of Birds of Gin,, 1877, 5; Joiirn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 1878, 113; Reprint, 4; Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 171; Re- 

 print, 5. 



Motadlla coronata, LiNNiEUS, Ryst. Nat., i, 1766, 333. 



Sylvia coronata, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 538. 



Sylvicola coronata, Swainson and Richardson, Fn. Bor. Am., ii, 1831, 216. 



Dendroica coronata, Gray, List of Genera of Birds, App., 1842, 8. 



Dendroeca coronata, Sclater, Proc. Zool Soc, 1P59, 362. 



Male, in spring; slaty blue, streaked with black; breast and sides mostly black, throat 

 and belly pure white, immaculate ; rump, central crown patch, and sides of breast sTiarply yel- 

 low, there being thus /b Mr definite yellow places ; sides of head black ; eyelids and snper- 

 oliary line white: ordinary white wing-bars and tail-blotches; bill and feet black; 

 male in winter, and female in summer, similar, but slate color less pure, or quite brown- 

 ish. Young, quite brown above, obscurely streaked below. Length .51-51; wing 3; 

 tail 2i. 



Habitat, North America, but chiefly the Eastern Province. 



Abundant spring and fall migrant. Arrives the latter part of April 

 and returns in October. Frequents woodland and the borders of streams, 

 generally in loose companies. The fall migration is sometimes prolonged 



