252 BIEDS — SYLYICOLID^. 



until considerable snow has fallen. They probably winter not very far 

 south of us, as the first birds to arrive in spring are usually in winter dress, 

 or moulting. Mr. Langdon saw them as early as March 4, and as late as 

 November 29. They are the most h ardy of all the warblers, w i nterin g reg- 

 ularly at Washington, D. C, and occasionally in the Hudson River Valley. 

 The Yellow-rump Warbler breeds in the extreme northern States and 

 northward. The nest is placed in a bush ; the eggs are white, blotched 

 and spotted with different shades of brown and purplish. According to 

 Mr. Brewster, the young in first plumage are very different from the adult, 

 bearing a considerable resemblance to the Pine Linnet. 



DeNDRCECA BLACKBUENIiE (Gmel.) Bd. 



^ lilacli'btiriiiaxi "Warbler. 



Sylvia Mackhurnim, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163, 181. 



Syloicola hlackbumiw, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 415 ; Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



1853, 395. 

 Dendroica llackburnm, Baird P, R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 275.— Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. 



for 1860, 1861, 364 ; Reprint, 6.— Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, N. A.Birds, i, 1874, 



234. 

 Dendrceca lilaekburniw, Wheaton, Food of Birds, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 563; 



Reprint, 3. — Langdon, Cat Birds of Cin,, 1877, 5: Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat, 



Hist., i, 1879, 171 ; Reprint, 5. 



Motadlla Hackburiniw, Gmkun, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 977. 

 Sylvia black!) imiice, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 527. 

 Sylvicolablackbm-nicB, Jakdine, " Ed. Wils. 1832." 

 Dendrceca blacTcburnim, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, 363. 



IMale, in spring: back black, more or less interrupted with yellowish; crown black, with 

 a central orange spot; a broad black stripe through the eye, enclosing ihe orange under 

 eyelid ; rest of head, with whole throat, most brilliant orange, or flame color ; other under 

 parts whitish, more or leps tinged with yellow, and sides streaked with black ; wing 

 bars fused into a large white patch ; tail blotches white, occupying nearly all the outer 

 feathers; hill and feet dark. Female and young male: upper parts olive and black, 

 streaked ; superciliary line and throat clear yellow fading iLsensibly on the breast ; lower 

 eyelid yellow, confined in the dusky ear-patch ; wing patch resolved into two bars; tail- 

 blotches nearly as extensive as in the adult male, the outer feathers showing white on 

 the outer webs at base. Size of oestiva. 



Habitat, Eastern North America. South to Mexico. Central and South America to 

 Ecuador. Utah. New Mexico. Bahamas. 



Regular spring and fall migrant. Abundant. This beautiful waibler, 

 by many considered the most attractive of the family, arrives from the 

 south about the end of the first week in May. The first to appear are 

 males in high plumage. These frequent the wooded banks of streams and 

 are usually solitary birds accompanying other species. In the course of 

 another week females and less highly colored males arrive, often in large 



