THE BIRD BOOK 
669. Hermit Warbler. Dendroica occiden- 
talis. 
Range. — Western United States and British Co- 
lumbia chiefly on the higher ranges. Winters 
south to Central America. 
This peculiar species has the entire head 
bright yellow and the throat black; upperparts 
grayish, underparts white. They are found nest- 
ing in wild rugged country, high up in pine trees, 
the nests being located among bunches of needles 
so that they are very difficult to find. The nests 
are made of rootlets, shreds of bark, pine needles, 
etc., lined with fine grasses or hair. The three or 
four eggs are laid during June or the latter part 
of May; they are white or creamy white, and 
sometimes with a faint greenish tinge, specked 
and wreathed with brown and lilac gray. Size 
.68 x .52. 
()70. Kirtland’s Warbler. Dendroica kirt - 
landi. 
Range. — Eastern United States; apt to be found 
in any of the South Atlanic, Middle or Central 
States, and in Ontario, Canada. Winters in the 
Bahamas where by far the greater number of 
specimens have been found. 
This very rare Warbler is bluish gray above, 
streaked with black, and yellow below with the 
throat and sides streaked. Until the summer of 
1903, the locality where they bred was a mystery. 
The capture of a specimen, in June, in Oscodo Cc., 
Michigan, led to the search for the nests by N. 
A. Wood, taxidermist for the Michigan Museum 
at Ann Arbor. He was successful in his quest 
and found two nests with young and one egg. The 
Hermit Warblers nest j n w i 1 j c i 1 the egg was found contained two 
s ‘ ' ' ' ' l,s young birds also. It was in a depression in the 
ground at the foot of a Jack pine tree and only a few feet from a cart road. 
The nest was made of strips of bark and vegetable fibres, lined with grass and 
pine needles. The egg is white, sprinkled with brown in a wreath about the 
large end. ' Size .72 x .56. It is estimated that there were thirteen pairs of the 
birds in this colony. 
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