35i WOOD WARBLERS. 



bright cfilors and preference for gardens, orchards, the shrubbery of 

 our lawns or bushy brooksides, instead of the woods, frequently brings 

 it to the attention of those to wliom most birds are strangers. 



It is an active bird, and its song — wee-chee, cliec, chei', cher-ivee^ 

 though simple, has a pleasing, happy ring. 



654. Demdroica caerxilescens (ffmd.). BL.iCK-TimoATED Blue 

 \Vai:u],kk. Ad. S. — Upper parts grayish blue, back somethnes IjlackisL ; 

 uiiiLTs iiiiLl tail edged with blue ; base of the primaries ii'hite, forming a white 

 Kimt on the wing at the end of tlie primary coverts; inner vanes of outer tail- 



FiG. 101.— Black-throated Blue Warbler. (Reduced.) 



feathers with a wliitc jiatch near their tip.s ; sides of the head and throat black ; 

 sides mi.Kcd black and white; breast and belly wdiite. Ad. 2 . — Upper parts 

 uniform olive-green ; tail generally with a faint bluish tinge, the white patch 

 on the outer feathers scarcely distinguishable; white at the base of the prima- 

 ries much reduced and sometimes concealed by the primary coverts ; ear-cov- 

 erts dusky gray ; under parts soiled butfy yellowish. Jiri. i . — Similar to ad. 

 i , but the upper parts washed with greenish, the throat tipped with white, 

 and less black on the sides. Im. 9 . — Similar to ad. v , but somewhat yellower. 

 L., 5-28; W., 2-.-2 ; t,, 2-OG ; B. from N., -29. 



liein'irl'^. — The white spot at the base of the primaries is the distinguish- 

 ing mark of this species. 



Kaiige. — Eastern North America; breeds from northern Minnesota (prob- 



