364 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



throat is yellow, while in ours it is white. Our eastern species has 

 frequently been found on the Pacific coast, but in the east the 

 western one has only once been observed, the record being of a 

 :specimen taken near Cambridge, Mass., on the 15th November, 1876. 



DENDROICA MACULOSA (Gmel.). 

 272. Magnolia. Warbler. ' (657) 



Mode in spring: — Back, black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive, 

 Tump, yellow ; crown, clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, behind 

 the eyes by a white stripe ; forehead and sides of the head, black, continuous 

 with that of the back, enclosing the white under eyelid ; entire under parts 

 (except white under tail coverts), rich yellow, thickly streaked across the 

 breast and along the sides with black, the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting 

 •off the definitely bounded immaculate yellow throat from the yellow of the 

 other under parts ; wing bars, white, generally fused into one patch ; tail spots 

 small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on all the feathers except 

 the central pair ; bill, black ; feet, brown. Female in spring: — Quite similar ; 

 black of back reduced to spots in the grayish-olive ; ash of head washed with 

 ■olive ; other head markings obscure ; black streaks below smaller and fewer. 

 Young : — Quite different ; upper parts, ashy-olive ; no head markings whatever, 

 and streaks below wanting or confined to a few small ones along the sides, but 

 always known by the yellow rump in connection with extensively or completely 

 yellow under parts (except white under tail coverts) and small tail spots near 

 the middle of all the feathers except the central. Small, 5 inches or less ; wing, 

 2i ; tail, 2. 



Hab. — Eastern North America to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 

 breeding from Northern New England, Northern New York and Northern 

 Michigan to Hudson's Bay Territory. In winter, Bahamas, Cuba and Central 

 America. 



Nest, usually placed in a low spruce or hemlock, a few feet above the 

 ground, sometimes ten to fifteen feet up in a young hemlock, composed of 

 twigs, rootlets and grass, and lined with horse-hair. 



Eggs, four or five, dull white, marked with lilac and brown. 



This by many is considered the most gaily dressed of the Warbler 

 family. In Southern Ontario it is a migrant in spring and fall, and 

 usually quite numerous. From its remaining near Hamilton till late 

 in May, and appearing again about the end of August, we may infer 

 that some of the numbers which pass in spring breed at no great 

 distance. Mr. C. J. Young, of the Collegiate Institute, Perth, men- 

 tions having found a nest of this species in his neighborhood on the 

 1st July, 1885. The description of the nest, its position and the 

 four eggs it contained, correspond exactly with that given by others 



