230 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 
the pines, and to which I am never weary of listening. Another reason, however, is 
that they show a fondness for the pines as great as my own, though, no doubt, from 
very different motives. The majesty of those trees, their gracefulness, their freshness 
throughout the year, their beauty in summer, when, after a hard shower, the light of 
the setting sun breaks upon them, their beauty in winter, when their branches are 
loaded, many to’ the ground, with snow, or when they are covered with glittering ice, 
their whisperings in the breezes of spring and summer, their sighing and whistling in 
the southern gales, and finally their odor, combine to render them the finest, I think, 
of all our forest trees.”’ (Minot.) 
In New England nests of this Warbler have been frequently found by Nuttall, 
Welch, Minot, and other ornithologists. Mr. Brewster found it a common bird in the 
mountains of North Carolina, where it was confined to the balsam forests, above 
5,000 feet. 
Mr. Minot, who has offered us a fresh and feeling description of the bird, a part 
of which I have quoted already, says in regard to the nesting habits of the Black- 
throated Green Warbler: ‘The nest is usually placed in a pine, in a horizontal fork 
near the end of a bough, from twenty to fifty feet above the ground (but sometimes 
lower). It is finished in June, sometimes in the first week, sometimes not until the 
last. It is composed outwardly of narrow strips of thin bark, bits of twigs from vines, 
dried grasses, and such odds and ends as the birds have found convenient to employ; 
and inwardly of bits of wool, feathers, and plant-down, but it is generally lined with 
hairs and fine shreds of vegetable substances. It is usually small, neat, and very 
pretty. The eggs of each set are three or four. They are commonly (creamy) white, 
with reddish or amber-brown and purplish markings, grouped principally about the 
crown. These markings are, for the most part, either clear and delicate or a little 
coarse and rather obscure....” : 
In September they depart for their winter home in the West Indies and Central 
America. 
NAMES: BLACK-THROATED GREEN WaRBLER, Black-throated Green. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motacilla virens Gmelin (1788). Sylvia virens Latham (1790). Sylvicola virens 
Richardson (1836), Audubon. DENDROICA VIRENS Barrp (1859). 
DESCRIPTION: Male: Above, olive-green; wings and tail, darker, the former with two white cross-bars 
and much white edging, the latter with the three outer feathers nearly all white. Whole side of head 
and forehead, rich yellow, contrasting beautifully with the jet-black chin, throat, and breast; the 
black color is prolonged in streaks on the sides of the body; rest of under-parts, white. Female, not 
so highly colored, the black restricted, veiled with yellow, or wanting entirely. 
Length, 5.00 inches; wings, 2.50; tail, 2.00 inches. 
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. 
Dendroica townsendi Bairp. 
TOWNSEND’S WARBLER is another western species respecting which our knowledge 
is limited” It occurs in the pine belts of the mountains, as far north as Sitka, Alaska, 
