THE BIRD BOOK 



657. Magnolia Warbleh. Dendroica mag- 

 nolia. 



Range. — Nortb America east of the Rockies, 

 breeding from northern United States to Hudson 

 Bay region and in the Alleghanies, south to Penn- 

 sylvania. Winters south of our borders. This 

 species, wliicli is one of the most beautiful of the 

 Warblers, is entirely yellow below and on the 

 rump, the breast and sides being heavily streaked 

 with black; a large patch on the 

 back and the ear, coverts are black. 

 They build in coniferous trees at 

 any elevation from the ground, 

 making their nests of rootlets and 

 grass stems, usually lined with 

 hair: the eggs are dull white, Whit.^ 



specked with pate reddish brown; size .65 x .48. 

 Data. — "Worcester, Mass., May 30, 1895. 4 eggs. 

 Nest of fine rootlets and grasses about 30 feet 

 up on the end of a limb of a pine overhanging a 



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^^^^ -I 658. Cehi'Lkan WarblEk. Dendroicd cwrulcii 



Range. — United States east of the Plains, breed- 

 ing chiefly in the northern half of the Mississippi 

 Valley, rare east of the Alleghanies and casual in 

 New England. These beautiful 

 Warblers are light blue gray above, 

 streaked with black on back, white 

 below, with a grayish blue band on 

 breast and streaks on the sides ; 

 they have two wide white wing bars 

 " ""-" and spots on the outer tail feathers. 



They are found chiefly in the higher trees where 

 they glean on the foliage; they build also usually 

 above twenty feet from the ground in any kind of 

 tree, placing the nests well out on the horizontal 

 limbs, generally in a fork. The nests are made of 

 rine strips of bark, fibres, rootlets, etc., lined with hair; the eggs are white or 

 pale bluish white, specked with reddish brown; size .62 x .48. Data. — Pargo, 

 Ontario, June 2, 1901. Nest in a burr oak, 18 feet from the ground on a hori- 

 zontal limb. 



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