WARBLERS 



(667) Dendroica virens 



(Gmd.) (Lat., becoming green), 

 BLACK-THROATED GREEN 

 WARBLER. ^l(i. c? — Plumage as 

 shown by the upper bird; upper parts 

 bright olive-green; sides of head bright 

 yellow; throat, breast and streaks 

 along the sides black; two white wing 

 bars; inner webs o£ outer tail feathers 

 white. Ad. 9 — As shown by the 

 lower bird; duller colored and with 

 the black on throat much reduced 

 and mixed with white. L., 5.00. 

 Nesi — Of strips of bark, fine root- 

 lets and grasses; in coniferous trees 

 from fifteen to fifty feet up; eggs 

 white, with brown specks about the 

 large end, .60 x .50. 



Range — Breeds from N. J., Pa., 

 Ohio and Minn, north to Newfound- 

 land, Quebec and Man. Winters in 

 Me.xico. With us May i to Oct. i. 



dom be seen for they habitually keep well up in pines or 

 cypresses. They glean insects from the ends of the limbs 

 among the needles as well as from the bark along branches 

 and upper trunks. They are rather slow in their actions as 

 they creep or hop about in a manner suggestive of that of 

 Pine Warblers. 



Their song may be fairly well recorded as "kling, kling, 

 kling, klin-ker-e-e " a loud, full, liquid song suggestive of that 

 of the Louisiana Water-Thrush. In fact upon first hearing 

 it, I supposed it was this species and was amazed to find the 

 singer in the top of a pine and to discover that it was a 

 Yellow-throated Warbler. 



Their nests are located on horizontal limbs of pines at high 

 elevations, usually from thirty to seventy feet up. They are 

 composed of small twigs, lichens, moss, webs, etc., and lined 

 with vegetable down and hair. 



GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLERS are handsome spe- 

 cies breeding in our range only in south-central Texas, where 



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