258 BIRDS — STLVICOLIDJE. 



locality the Black and Yellow Warbler arrives during the first week in 

 May, and frequents woods and banks of streams, and sometimes visits 

 the gardens of the city. It is usually found feeding in the undergrowth, 

 and lower branches of treea, and is very active; its bright colors, and 

 neat appearance, as it hops from branch to branch, make it one of the 

 most attractive birds of the family. I have seen it here during the first 

 week in June, which indicates its breeding at no great distance. Mr. 

 Reed (1. c. Fam. Vis.) says "some linger with us and doubtless raise 

 their young here, as I have observed it during the middle of summer, 

 evidently procuring food for their young, though I was unable to find 

 their nest." 



They begin to return in August, and usually have all left this latitude 

 by the 1st of October. 



The Black and Yellow Warbler has been found breeding from Western 

 New York northward to Labrador. The nest is usually placed in a low 

 spruce, but a few feet from the ground. It is constructed of twigs, root- 

 lets, and grass. The eggs are dull white, sparsely marked with lilac and 

 umber. They measure .62 by .51. ' 



DfiNDECECA 1'IGRINA (Gm.) Bd. 

 Cape 3May "Warbler, 



Sijlvia maratinia, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Sarv., 1836, 163, 181 ; Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 

 xl, 1841, 93. 



Sijlvicola mariiima, Ebad, Fam. Vis., iii, 1853, 415 ; Proo. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 

 395. 



Dendroica tigrina, Whkaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 364; Reprint, 1861, 6. 



Dendrwca tigrina, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio. Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; Eo- 

 print, 1875, 4.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 5. 



Perissoglossa tigrina, Langdon, Revised List, Jour. Gin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 171 ; Re- 

 print, 5. 



Motaoilla tigrina, Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 985. 

 Sylvia maritima, Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, i81ii, 99. 

 Sylvicola mariiima, Jardinb, "Ed. Wilson, 1832." 

 Dendroica tigrina, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1853, 286. 

 Dendrwca tigrina, Sclater, Proo. Zool. Soc, 1861, 71. 

 Perisaoglossa tigrina, Baird, Rev. N. A. Birds, 1865, 181. 



Male, in spring : back yellowish olive, with dark spots ; crown blackish, more or less 

 interrupted with brownish; ear-patch orange-trown; chin, throat, and posterior portion 

 of a yellowish superciliary line, tinged with the same; a black loral line; rump and 

 under parts rich yellow, paler on belly and crissum, the breast and sides streaked with 

 black; wing-bars fused into a large whitish patch ; tail blotches large, on three pairs of 

 retrices; bill and feet black. Female in spring: somewhat similar, but lacks the dis- 

 tinctive head markings; the under parts are paler and less streaked ; the tail spots small 

 or obscure ; the white on the wing less. Young : an insignificant-looking bird, re- 

 sembling an overgrown Ruby-crowned Kinglet without its crest; obscure greenish olive 



