DENDROICA. 499 



the sides broadly streaked with 

 grayish blue and dusky, and 

 chest crossed by a band of the 

 same (sometimes interrupted in 

 middle). Adult female : Above 

 grayish olive-green, glossed with 

 bluish, especially on crown ; su- 

 perciliary stripe (this sometimes 

 obsolete) and lower parts pale 

 greenish yellow or pale greenish 

 buffy, the throat and belly nearly 

 (sometimes quite) white; sides 

 streaked with color of back, but 

 no band across chest. Young 

 male in first autumn : Similar to 

 adult female, but whiter beneath 

 and more bluish above. Young : 

 Above brownish gray, the crown 

 divided by a median stripe of 

 whitish ; sides of head and lower 

 parts white, the first with a nar- 

 row dark brownish gray streak 

 through eye. Length 4.00-5.00, 

 wing 2.40-2.70, tail 1.70-1.90. 

 Nest in trees in high deciduous 

 woods, 20-50 feet, or more, from 

 ground, compact, cup-shaped, 

 composed of plant-fibres, strips 

 of fine bark, spiders' webs, etc. 

 Eggs about .69 X -53, white, or 

 dull greenish white, speckled 

 with brown, chiefly round larger 

 end. Sab. Eastern United States 

 (west of Alleghanies) and south- 

 ern Canada, east to central New 

 York ; south, in winter, to west- 

 ern Cuba, Yucatan, and Guate- 

 mala, and thence to Colombia, 

 Peru, and Bolivia. 



658. D. cserulea (Wils.). 



Cerulean Warbler. 



k i . Adult male: Top of head yellow, 



bordered laterally with black; 



ear-coverts, sides of neck, and 



lower parts pure white, the lat- 



