104 WARBLERS 



Range. Nests from northern New England and northern 

 Michigan into Canada; winters in the tropics. 



Washington, abundant T. V., Apl. 28- June 16; Aug. 31-Oct. 20. 

 Ossining, common T. V., May 7- June 6; Aug. 30-Oct. 16. Cam- 

 bridge, abundant T. V., May 12- June 5; Sept. 8-Oct. 20. N. 

 Ohio, common T. V., May 6- June 2; Sept. i-Oct. 16. Glen 

 Ellyn, common T. V., May 2-June 8; Aug. 23-Sept. 27. SE. 

 Minn., common T. V., May 8-; Aug. 27.- 



Toward the end of the May Warbler ' waves ' the Black- 

 polls come in force. They are excessively fat and, perhaps 

 for this reason, move rather slowly for a Warbler. They 

 are Wood Warblers, but at this season may overflow into 

 the trees of our lawns and orchards. Mrs. Farwell 

 describes the BlackpolTs song as " a succession of hesi% 

 tating, staccato, unmusical notes varying greatly in vol- 

 ume. The notes separated, not combined in twos, as in 

 the Black and White Warbler's song." When nesting 

 this Warbler frequents stunted spruce forests, placing 

 its nest in these trees a few feet above the ground, and 

 laying 4-5 white, brown-marked eggs the latter part of 

 June. 



>.' BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER 

 Dendroica fusca. Case 8, Figs. 67, 68 



The orange breast, fiery in the spring male, duller in the female 

 and fall males, is distinctive. L. 5 J. 



Range. Nests from Massachusetts (locally) and central 

 Minnesota north to Canada and southward in the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia; winters in the tropics. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl. 30— June 3; Aug. 14-Oct. 7. 

 Ossining, common T. V., May 10-29; Aug. 15-Oct. 15. Cam- 

 bridge, T. V., uncommon, May 12-22; rare, Sept. 15-30. N. 

 Ohio, common T. V., May 4-June 8; Aug. 12-Sept. 22. SE. 

 Minn., common T. V., May 3-; Sept. 4. 



The remoteness of their homes prevents us from making 

 the acquaintance of the brilliantly plumaged birds of the 

 tropics, but among them all we will find none more 

 beautiful than this flame-breasted Warbler, which each 



