FAM. VII. WOOD WAESLERS 



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ChestEnt-sided Wartler 



olive, and the under parts silky -white ; the sides are sometimes 

 blotched with chestnut ; an inhabitant of bushy borders. 



Length, 5 ; wing, 2J 

 (2|-2f ) ; tail, 2 ; oul- 

 men, f . Eastern United 

 States from the Plains, 

 including southern Onta- 

 rio ; breeding from north- 

 ern New Jersey and cen- 

 tral Illinois northward 

 (southward to Georgia in 

 the mountains), and win- 

 tering in the tropics. 



20. Bay-breasted 

 Warbler (660. Den- 

 drdica casthnea). — A 

 brownis'h-ashy-backed warbler, with chestnut crown and brown- 

 ish breast and sides ; forehead and cheeks black ; wing bars 

 and belly white; the under tail feathers have the white 

 patches at their tips. Female with the crown somewhat olive, 

 the under parts not so white, and less rufous on the breast and 

 sides. This is a beautiful warbler, living in its summer home, 

 among the tree tops. (Autumn Warbler.) 



Length, 5J ; wing, 2} (2|-3) ; tail, 2| ; culmen, ^. Eastern North 

 America from Hudson Bay southward ; breeding from northern New 



England and northern 

 Michigan northward, and 

 wintering in Mexico and 

 Central America. 



21. Black-poll War- 

 bler (661. Dendroica 

 striclta). — A common, 

 very much streaked, 

 mainly black and 

 white warbler, with 

 distinct black cap and white cheeks. The male has grayish and 

 the female olive-green tints on the back, including the crown, 

 thus obliterating the black cap. The female is less distinctly 



Bay-treasted Warbler 



