228 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 
internal diameter, 1.60; internal depth, 2.00. The exterior is mainly composed of strips 
of cedar bark, with a slight admixture of fine grass-stems, rootlets, and hemp-like 
fibres, the whole being kept in place by an occasional wrapping of spider webs. The 
interior is beautifully lined with the hair of different quadrupeds and numerous feathers; 
among the latter, several conspicuous scarlet ones from the Cardinal Grosbeak. The 
outer surface of the whole presents a grayish, inconspicuous appearance, and from the 
nature of the component materials is well calculated to escape observation. Indeed, it 
must depend for concealment upon this protective coloring, as it is in no way sheltered 
by any surrounding foliage.” * 
The eggs, four to five in number, are creamy-white, glossy, speckled and spotted 
with shades of reddish-brown and umber. 
The Golden-cheeked Warbler occurs from south-western Texas to Guatemala. 
NAMES: GoLpDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER, Cedar Warbler, Texas Warbler. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: DENDROICA CHRYSOPARIA ScuaTer & SA.vin. 
DESCRIPTION: Head and body, above black, the feathers with olive-green edges, especially on the back; 
rump, clear black; entire side of head, yellow, with a narrow black line through the eye. Beneath, 
white; a large black patch covering the chin and throat, and occupying the entire space between the 
yellow patches of the two sides of the head and neck, and extended along the sides in a series of 
streaks. Wings, above ashy, with two white bands across the coverts. 
Length about 5-inches ; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.15 inches. 
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 
Dendroica virens BAIRD. 
PLaTE XII. Fic. 6. 
«ALB HE CONIFEROUS region of central and northern Wisconsin, with its many lakes, 
q romantic scenery, gushing streams and prattling brooks, cool springs and exten- 
sive forests, is very attractive to every lover of nature during the short summer. 
Tourists and pleasure seekers from all parts of the country, especially from the South, 
make this region their favorite summer home. The ground underneath the white pines, 
hemlocks, and spruces is always covered with a dense underwood, consisting of moose- 
wood', June-berry bushes, white thorns, and other shrubs. A dense dark green carpet 
of wintergreen, trailing arbutus, ground pine, wood lilies, bellworts, bloodroots, terres- 
trial orchids, ferns, bunch-berries’, clintonias*, solomon’s seals,and many other delicate 
and beautiful plants, cover the ground in these woods. The remoteness and surrounding 
wildness render many a scene doubly impressive. The lakes are usually very irregular 
in their outline but always picturesque and surrounded by dark evergreen forests. Near 
such a sheet of water I spent the most poetical part of my life, my boyhood. The 
* Bulletin Nuttall Ornithological Club, IV, pp. 77—79, 
1 Cornus circinata. 2 Cornus Canadensis, 3 Clintonia borealis. 
