66 DENDEffiCA DOMINICA, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLEE. 



orchards in the wooded portions, in April, during the northward migra- 

 tion of the Sylvicolidce. 



"The eggs are of an oval shape, pointed at one end, and measure 0.68 

 by 0.48 of an inch. They have a white ground, marked with spots of 

 lilac and purple, and two shades of umber-brown." 



DEISTDRGEOA DOMINICA, (Linn.) Bd. 



Tellow-throated Warbler* 



Motacilla dominica, Lrxx., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 334. 



Bcndrwca dominica, Be, Rev. 1865, 209 (Colima, &c.). — Lawr., Ann. Lye. ix, 1869, 200 

 (Yucatan). — Sujiich., Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1869, 547 (Orizaba, Aug.). — Ai.lej«, 

 Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 268 (Florida, in winter).— CouBS, Key, 1872, 103.— Scott, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. 1672 (West Virginia).— Mayn., B. Fla. 1872, 60. 



Motacilla superciliosa, Eonc, PI. Eul. 686, f. 1. 



Mniotilta superciliosa, Gii.AY, Genera of Birds. 



Dendrwca superciliosa, Bd., B. N. A. 18.58, 289.— Sci.., P. Z. S. 1859, 363 (Xalapa) ; 1859, 

 373 (Oaxaca); 1881, p. — (Jamaica); 1863, 368 (Mexico); Cat. 1862, 33.— Sci.. 

 & Salv., Ibis, iii, 1860, 274 (Guatemala). — Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. I860, No. 

 94 (quite common). — CouES & Pp.e>'T., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 408 (Washington, 

 D. C, accidental; spec, in 1842). — Guxdl., J. f. 0. 1861, 326 (Cuba, common). — 

 March, Pr. Pliila, Acad. 1863, 293 (Jamaica, June). — Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 

 1868, 109 (South Carolina, common).— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 42 (straggler).— 

 Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 5 (Neosho Falls, in June). 



Motacilla flavicollis, G.M., Svst. Nat. i, 1788, 959. 



Sylvia flarieoUis, Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 518.— WiLS., Am. Orn. ii, 1810, 64, pi. 12, f. 6. 



Motacilla pensilis, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 960. 



iSylria peusilis. Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 520. — ^Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 11, pi. 



72.— Bp., Syn. 1828, 79.— Nutt., i, 1832, 374.— Atjd., Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 434, pi. 85. 



^ Sylvicola peiisilis, Rich., Rep. Br. Assoc, 1837. — Bp., List, 18.38; Consp. i, 1650, 307. — 



Aid., Syn. 1839, 53.— Add., B. Am. ii, 1641, 32, pi. 79.— Gosse, B. Jam. 1847, 156. 



EMmanpkus pensilis, Cab., J. f. O. iii, 1655, 474 (Cuba). — ScL., P. Z. S. 1856, ;i91 (Cordova). 



Hob. — Eastern United States, north to JIaryland ; to New Jersey (Aaduion) ; to 

 Pennsylvania (TMrn6«H); to New York (Defray); to Connecticut (i:;:3?fi/). Ohio, Illi- 

 nois, and Kansas. Cuba. Jamaica. St. Domingo (Salle, P. Z. S. IS.W, 231). Mexico, 

 on west coast to Colima. Guatemala. Winters from Florida southward. (A var. albi- 

 lora is described from the Mississippi Valley by Mr. Ridgway, Am. Nat. vii, 1873, 606.) 



This is essentially a- Southern species, which I have not been able to 

 trace further north than Washington, D. C. Audubon, however, gives 

 it to ISTew Jersey; and Turnbull, in liis admirable List, notes it as a 

 stiaggler to the lower counties of jSTew Jersey and Pennsylvania. The 

 Eev. Yiv. Liusley included it among the birds of Connecticut, but ap- 

 parently upon information at second hand ; and its occurrence in New 

 England is very questionable. (See OOUES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1808, 270.) 

 Mr. Lawrence omits it from his New York list. In Ohio, Mr. J. M. 

 Wheaton states that it was common <jne season: "It seems," he adds, 

 ^' quite partial to the vicinity of running water, and is usually seen on 

 trees and fences near rivers. In its habits it approaches the Titmice 

 and Creepers, frequently hanging and walking, head downward, on fence 

 rails."' I have noted similar habits of the/species in South Carolina. 

 Prof. Snow's reference is particularly interesting, indicating that the 

 bird breeds in Kansas. It would al.so appear, from various accounts, 

 to bre€d in the West Indies. It has not, to my knowledge, been ob- 

 served to winter any v\ here in the United States, excepting in Florida. 



Since the foregoing paragraph was prepared, Mr. W. D. Scott has 

 printed an interesting note respecting the occurrence and probable 

 breeding of the species in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Two indi- 

 viduals, male and female, were taken in July. 



One of the most remarkable nests I ever saw, was built by a Yellow- 

 throated Warbler at Wilmington, North Carolina, where it was secured 

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