224, GRACE’S WARBLER. 
A. T. Wayne found nests of this Warbler in mixed woods near Charleston, S. C., which 
were built in tufts of Spanish moss, and lined with feathers. 
The SycaMoRE WARBLER, Dendroica dominica albilora Batrp, is only a variety of 
the foregoing. In the Mississippi valley, at least as far north as central Illinois, in the 
bottom woods of the lower Arkansas and Missouri, in Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
south-eastern Texas, it is a summer resident. Most common it seems to be in southern 
Illinois and southern Indiana. According to Prof. Robert Ridgway, the Sycamore 
Warbler is a common summer resident in the bottom lands, where, according to the 
writer’s experience, it lives chiefly in the large sycamore trees along or near water- 
courses. On this account it is a difficult bird to observe during the breeding season, 
»the male usually keeping in the topmost branches of the tallest trees, out of gunshot 
and often, practically, out of sight, although his presence is betrayed by his loud, very 
unwarbler-like song. The song of this species is so much like that of the Indigo Bird 
that it requires a practical ear to distinguish them; the tone is remarkably similar, but 
there is a difference in the modulation which, after one becomes thoroughly acquainted 
with it, renders it distinguishable. In its motions, this Warbler partakes much of the 
character of a Creeper, often ascending or descending trunks of trees or following their 
branches, much in the manner of Mniotilta.” 
The distribution of this variety is not yet well made out. I never saw it in 
northern Illinois, but Mr. Nelson records it as a rare summer visitant, and Dr. Gibbs 
found it at Kalamazoo, Mich.—It is also called Wurre-cHEEKED WARBLER, and WHirte- 
BROWED YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. This variety is smaller with a shorter bill; super- 
ciliary stripe usually entirely white. 
NAMES: YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, Pensile Warbler (Lath.), Yellow-throated Gray Warbler, Yellow- 
throated Wood Warbler. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motacilla dominica Linn. (1766). Sylvia dominica Lath. (1790). DENDROICA 
DOMINICA Bairp (1865). Dendroica superciliata Baird (1858). Motacilla pensilis Gmel. (1788). 
Sylvia pensilis Lath. (1790). Sylvicola pensilis Rich. (1837), Aud. Motacilla flavicollis Gmel. (1788). 
Sylvia flavicollis Lath. (1790). Sylvicola flavicollis Hoy (1853), Wisconsin. 
DESCRIPTION: Male, adult: “Upper parts, uniform grayish-blue. Chin and throat, bright yellow; under- 
parts, white. Forehead, and sometimes most of crown, lores, and cheeks, sides of throat, and numer- 
ous streaks on the sides of the breast, black. A stripe from the nostrils over and behind the eye, a 
crescent on the lower eyelid, the sides of the neck behind the black cheek-patch, and two conspicuous 
bands on the wings, white. Terminal half of the outer two, and terminal third of the third tail- 
feathers, white. Female, almost precisely similar. 
“Length, 5.10 inches; wing, 2.603 tail, 2.30 inches.”’ (Baird.) 
GRACE’S WARBLER. 
Dendroica gracize COvEs. 
GracE’s WARBLER was discovered by our distinguished naturalist, Dr. Elliott Coues, 
in Arizona, and named after his sister Grace. In the mountain region of Arizona it 
always frequents the pine belt. “They keep not only among tall pines, but even in the 
upper portions of these magnificent trees, some of which grow to such a height that it 
is a fair gunshot rarige to their lower limbs, let alone the canopy of foliage that 
