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to four, a creamy white, spotted with light brown (occa- 
sionally black specks), and fainter markings of lavender. 
Size of eggs, .65x.48. Their food probably differs little 
from the insect food taken by the other warblers, such as 
the Chestnut-sided and Blue-winged. I found them plen- 
tiful at Mountain Lake, Giles County, where they were 
nesting in low bushes near the tops of the ridges, altitude 
about 4,000 feet. Fresh eggs June 5th to 15th. Only 
one brood a season. Many nests were found in low 
rhododendrons June 20, all with young. 
[657]. Dendroica magnolia (Wilson). Magnolia 
Warbler. 
Ranere.—Eastern North America. Breeds in Cana- 
dian and Upper Transition zones from southwestern Mac- 
kenzie (casually Great Bear Lake), southern Keewatin, 
northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to central Al- 
berta, southern Saskatchewan, Minnesota, northern Michi- 
gan and northern Massachusetts, and in the mountains of 
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and 
New York; winters from southern Mexico (Puebla and 
Chiapas) to Panama, and also rarely in Haiti and Porto, 
Rico; in migration west to base of the Rocky Mountains; 
casual in California, British Columbia, the Bahamas and 
Cuba. 
In the vicinity of Blacksburg these birds are reported 
“common on May 8th to 13th, and again in the fall Sep- 
tember 10th to October 9th,” though Professor Smyth 
does not list them as breeding birds with him there. These 
are, of course, migratory birds in that section, but I found 
