BLACK-THROATED GREEN WAKBLm-(Dcndroica virens.) 
Upper parts bright olive green, baek sometimes spotted with black; 
line over tlie eye and cheeks bright yellow; throat and breast black; s.des 
streaked with black; belly white, sometimes streaked with yellow; tad 
strikinglv marked with white. 
Female, similar, but the black of throat and breast tnore or less 
mixed with yellowish. 
Length about five inches. 
Arrival April 30 to May U- , , • ^ 
FavorUe Haunts. Tops of trees, especially hemlocks, pines and 
spruces. 
Field Marks. Throat and upper breast black, sides of head bright 
vellow, large amount of white in the tail. 
Song A slow nasal "zee-ee-ee, zee-ah-ee." "Good Saint The-re-sa, ' 
given with a rising inflection and with a decided accent on the last 
syllable. "Trees, trees, imir-mur-ing trees." 
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