112 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS 
Bay-breasted Warblers? JI have only ‘“ Wilson’s Ornithology” 
at hand, and unfortunately no specimen of the bird in question. 
But the weight of evidence seems to show that the bird as col- 
ored and described by Wilson represents the young of the 
latter; and yet is it not possible that he may have accidentally 
obtained a young Bay-breasted Warbler from among a com- 
pany of “ Black-polls ”?3° Coues admits that the young of 
the two species are so much alike as often to be indistinguish- 
able. It is certain that the small warblers seen here in Octo- 
ber, which resemble the Autumnal Warblers, are young “‘Black- 
polls,” as is indicated by the fact of their abundance and by 
their habits. Mr. Maynard states it as a positive fact. 
Their note is a feeble Cedar-bird-like lisp; but Wilson 
speaks of the males warbling in autumn “low, but very sweet 
notes,” which perhaps is a mistake. (See D,d, E,d.)] . 
(F) Biackpurnia. Blackburnian Warbler. Hemlock War- 
bler. 
(Generally not a common migrant through Massachusetts, 
where this species occasionally breeds.) 
(a). About 43 inches long. @ dark above. Wing-patch, 
white. Head, throat, and breast, brilliant orange, with a border 
to the crown and a broad stripe through the eye black. Sides 
black-streaked, and helly nearly white. 9 essentially like 9? 
striata (E) above. Superciliary line, throat and breast, yellow. ' 
Otherwise like #. 
(6). Anest of this species, containing young, which I found 
in Northern New Hampshire, was placed about twenty feet’ 
from the ground ina pine. Another, which I was so fortunate 
as to find in a thick hemlock-wood near Boston, was also about 
twenty feet above the ground. It contained three young and a 
yet unhatched egg, which measures ‘65:50, and resembles 
the egg of the Chestnut-sided Warbler (D), being white, with 
lilac and principally reddish-brown markings, grouped at the’ 
3° The legs in Wilson’s picture are, however, colored like those of the “ Black- 
poll,” and not like those of the “ Bay-breast.” 
