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Dr. Brewer describes the nest as built of " strips of the bark of the 

 smaller vegetables, strengthened by a few stems and bits of dried grasses, 

 and lined with woolly vegetable fibres and a few soft hairs of the smaller 

 animals." The eggs are " rich creamy-white, and are beautifully spotted, 

 chiefly ab lut the larger end, with two shades of purple and purplish- 

 brown. They measure .65 by .49 of an inch." 



Dendececa maculosa (Gm.) Bd. 



Slack and "STelloTV "Warbler. 



Sylvia magnolia, Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 63. 



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



Sylvicola mMoulosa, Audubon, B. Am., it, 1841, 65. — Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 415; 



Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sol., vi, 1853, 395. 

 Dendroica maculosa, Baird, P. E. E. Eep., ix, 1858, 285. — ;Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Eep. for 



1860, 1861, 364 ; Eeprint, 6. — Baied, Brmwer and Eidgwat, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 



233. 

 Dendrosca maculosa, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 1875, 563 ; 



Eeprint, 3. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 5; Eevised List, Jour. Cin. Soo. Nat. 



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



Motamlla maculosa, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 984. 



Sylvia maculosa, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 536. 



Sylvicola maculosa Swainson and Eichabdson, Fn. Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 213. 



Dendrceca maculosa, Sci-atbr, Proo. Zool, Soc, 1859, 363. 



Male, in spring : back black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive: rump yellow ; 

 crown clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, behind the eyes by a white stripe ; 

 forehead and sides of the head black, continuous with that of the back, enclosing the 

 white under eyelid ; entire under parts (except white under tail coverts) rich yellow, 

 thickly streaked across the breast and along the sides with black, the pectoral streaks 

 crowded and cutting off the definitely bounded immaculate yellow throat from the yel- 

 low of the other under parts; wing-bars white, generally fused into one patch; tail 

 spots small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on all the feathers except the central pair; 

 bill black; feet brown. Female, in spring: quite similar; black of back reduced to 

 spots in the grayish olive ; ash of head washed with olive ; other head markings ob- 

 scure; black streaks below smaller and fewer. Xoung quite different; upper parts 

 ashy olive; no head-markings whatever, and streaks below* wanting, or confined to a 

 few small ones along the sides, bnt always known by the yellow rump, in connection 

 witih extensively or completely yellow under parts (except white under tail-coverts) and 

 small tail spots near the middle of all the featliers except the central. Small, 5 inches 

 or less ; wing 2\ ; tail 2. 



Habitat, Eastern Province of North America to Labrador, Hudson's Bay, Great Slave 

 Lake, etc. ; west to Colorado ; south to New Granada. Cuba. Bahamas. 



Abundant and regular spring and fall migrant in Middle Ohio ; sum- 

 mer resident in small numbers in Northeastern Ohio. Wilson first 

 saw this bird on the Little Miami, near its mouth. Given by Mr. 

 Langdon as a spring and fall migrant; common in September. In this 

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