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distinguish them." Other Warblers linger later than they. Most 

 of them are gone from southern Indiana before May 5, though I 

 have record for Brookville May 7, 1892, and from Grreensbuxg,. May 

 14, 1893 (Shannon). By the latter date they haye generally passed 

 our northern border. A few, some years, linger longer, espeeially 

 about the lower end of Lake Michigan. Prof. Evermann found them 

 in Carroll County May 22, 1883; Chicago, May 17, 1897 (Tallman); 

 "Wolf Lake, Ind., May 30, 1894 (Parker). 



In the fall they begin to return the m;iddle of September, and 

 promptly spread across the State, remaining with us, frequenting 

 woods, thickets and weed patches,, even stubblefield overgrown with 

 rag weeds, often associating with other Warblers and Sparrows. The 

 first arrivals prefer the woods, and later they are noticed about the 

 fields and orchards. The earliest of fall arrivals at Chicago is Sep- 

 tember 15, 1896; at Bicknell, Ind., Septemher 18, 1894; Brookville, 

 September 23, 1887. The last record from Chicago is October 3, 

 1896; Lake County, Ind., October 2, 1881; Carroll County, October 

 5, 1878; Lafayette, October 27, 1894; Brookville (where they did not 

 winter), October 29, 1887. 



The food of these Warblers is almost entirely insect food, and the 

 fact that they are found during their visits in almost every conceivable 

 situation, catching insects, renders them objects especially worthy of 

 our regard. Of 21 of these birds examined, one had eaten a moth; 

 two, twenty-one caterpillars, mostly measuring worms; fire, fourteen 

 flies; fifteen,, forty-eight beetles; on«, four ichneumons; »ne, a caddis 

 fly; one, a spider, and one, fifteen tipulid eggs (King;, GeoL oi Wis., 

 I., p. 503). The results of Prof. Forbes' investigations show the same 

 kinds of foods-. 



268. (657). Bendrolca maculosa (Giffim.). 



SFagnolia Warbler. 



Pynoaym, Black and Yellow Waebleb. 



Male in Spring'. — Back, black, the feathers more or less s^kirted with 

 olive; rump, yellow; crown, clear ash, bordered by black in front to 

 the eyes-, behind the eyes by a white stripe; forehead and sidles of the 

 head, black, continuous with that of the back, encl-osing the white 

 vmder eyelid; entire under pajts (except white under tail coverts), 

 rich yellow, thickly streaked across the breast and along the sides 

 ■vrith black; the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting off the definitely 

 bounded, immaculate yellow throat from the yellow of the other under 

 parts; wing bars, white, generally fused into one patch; tail spots, 



