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The eggs are usually four in number, sometimes five. Some 

 specimens are somewhat like the common type of the Yellow Warbler's, 

 being greenish-white, marked chiefly about the crown with olive-brown^ 

 The ground color, however, varies from dull olivaceous-white to pale 

 green or even pale blue, and the markings are usually blackish-browr- 

 and lilac-gray ; average size .67 x .52. A set of four eggs in Mr. Norris' 

 cabinet was taken in Larimer county, Colorado. They measure 

 .72X.56, .71X.55, .73X.56, .77X.55. 



657. Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.) [97.] 



Magnolia 'Warbler. 



Hab. , Eastern North America as far west as base of Rocky Mountains. Breeds from northern parts- 

 of New England, New York, and Michigan northward to about Hudson Bay. In winter, Bahamas^ 

 Cuba" and Central America. 



An elegant little bird, and perhaps better known as the Black-and- 

 Yellow Warbler. Breeds commonly in Northern New England, New 

 Vork, Michigan and northward. Not an abundant summer resident in 

 Northeastern Ohio. Accounts of this species nesting in New Hamp- 

 shire and Maine have been given by Mr. William Brewster, Ruthven 

 Deane, C. J. Maynard and others. It was found breeding quite abun- 

 dantly on Grand Manan by Mr. Charles H. Andros. The time of laying 

 for this species is usually in the first half of June. 



According to Mr. Brewster it is found everywhere common through- 

 out the White Mountains of New Hampshire.* Its favorite resorts are 

 little clumps of fir and spruce shrubs, also willow thickets near streams 

 and ponds and other damp places. Its gay colors and sprightly song will 

 at once attract the attention of even the casual observer. The nest is 

 usually placed in the horizontal twigs of a fir or spruce at heights 

 ranging from five to six feet, four being the average elevation, and. 

 the favorite localities are the edges of wood-paths, clearings or roads 

 bordered by woods. Sometimes the nests are built in the tops of young 

 hemlocks ten to fifteen feet up, or in the heart of the forest, thirty-five 

 feet above the ground. The nest Mr. Brewster states is loosely put 

 together, of fine twigs, preferedly hemlock, coarse grasses, dry weed- 

 stalks ; the lining is fine black roots, closely resembling horse hair. 

 In general style it approaches more nearly the nest of the Chestnut- 

 sided Warbler. The eggs are four in number, very rarely five. A 

 series of forty-three sets of the eggs of this species is in Mr, Norris' 

 cabinet. The ground color of the specimens is usually creamy-white,, 

 spotted and blotched with various shades of reddish-brown, hazel and 

 chestnut. The markings are generally large and well defined and often 

 form wreaths about the larger ends; again the ground-color of the 



■> Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, II, pp. 1-7. 



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