Nests in Trees, Bushes, or Vines 



Adult ? — Upper parts dull olive instead of black ; the yellow parts 



are replaced by dull orange. Length — 5.25. 

 Breeding Range — From southern Maine, eastern Massachusetts, 



and northern New York northward ; also along the AUe- 



ghanies from South Carolina northward. 



The nest is described as being compactly made of spruce 

 twigs, fine roots, shreds of bark, and soft plant down (especially 

 cat-tail down), lined with hair, grass, tendrils, and sometimes 

 feathers. It is placed in coniferous trees, at about twenty feet 

 from the ground. 4 eggs are laid ; they are white, tinged with 

 green or blue and spotted or faintly blotched with various shades 

 of brown and ashy lilac. Size — .69 x .50. 



These warblers, the most brilliant-coloured of their family, 

 are known to most of us only as migrants, reaching the neigh- 

 bourhood of New York about the middle of May, on their way 

 to their breeding places in the evergreen forests of Maine and 

 northward. 



The nests are completed probably about the end of May or 

 beginning of June. 



663. Yellow-throated Warbler: Dendroica dominica 



(Linn.) 



Adult — Upper parts gray ; darker on the forehead ; over the eye 

 there is a white line, which changes to yellow between the 

 eye and bill ; sides of face and sides of throat black, back 

 of which is a white patch ; under parts yellow to white on 

 the belly, and streaked on the sides with black. Length — 

 5.25. 



Breeding Raiige — Virginia (casually to southern New England), 

 southward. 



The nest is placed on a branch of a pine tree, or in tufts of 

 hanging moss, at a height of eighteen feet and upwards. It is 

 composed of twigs, bark, and Spanish moss, lined with plant- 

 down, and sometimes feathers. 



The eggs, numbering from 4 to 5, are whitish, with spots 

 of brown and drab evenly distributed, or in a wreath at the larger 

 end. Size — .74 x .53. 



The breeding season commences towards the end of April 

 or early in May. 



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