296 THE BIRDS 
[663]. Dendroica dominica dominica (Linneus). 
Yellow-throated Warbler. 
Rance.—Eastern North America. Breeds mainly in 
Austroriparian zone from southern Maryland and central 
Delaware to middle Florida; winters in southern Florida, 
Bahamas, and Greater Antilles, and also casually north to 
South Carolina and in the Lesser Antilles; in migration 
casually to New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. 
This bird has long been a puzzle to me, as I generally 
mistook it at a distance in the tree tops for the Pine 
Warbler. It was not until the season of 1910 and 1911 
that this breeding bird was firmly established on my list. 
\ bird of the pine tree tops, with habits not unlike that 
of the Pine Warbler, it was not strange that I should fail 
to locate them, although their song could easily be dis- 
tinguished after getting them separated once. The nests 
are placed on the extremity of a horizontal limb of a pine, 
from 20 to 50 feet up, of strips of bark, grasses, weed 
stems, and lined with hair and sometimes feathers. Eggs 
three to four, a dull greenish-white, spotted, specked or 
blotehed with reddish-brown and gray, mostly on the 
larger end. Size, .70x.51. Fresh eggs April 7th to 30th, 
sometimes a second brood. They arrive as early as March 
20th and depart the latter part of July. On April 2nd, 
1911, I had a handsome male come into my house, 
attracted to the front door by the hall light, which, when 
opened, admitted the bird to the room. It is practically 
impossible to find the nest unless one watches the bird 
building, or with young, so well hidden is it by the bunches 
of green needles and cones. They are shy birds and will 
be seldom, if ever, seen, except by those actively engaged 
in ornithological work. Their food consists of insects, 
larvee, beetles, and caterpillars, gathered principally from 
the pine trees. 
