WOOD WARBLERS 
455 
T. V., May 12-June 5; Sept. 8-Oct. 20. N. Ohio, common T. V., May 6- 
June 2; Sept. 1-Oct. 16. Glen Ellyn, common T. V., May 2-June 8; Aug. 
23-Sept. 27. SE. Minn., common T. V., May 8- ; Aug. 27- . 
Nest, of twigs, moss, rootlets, etc., lined with fine grasses and tendrils, 
generally in spruce trees, about 6 feet up. Eggs, 4-5, white, more or less 
speckled and spotted, and generally heavily blotched at the larger end with 
cinnamon-, olive-, or rufous-brown, *70 x *54. Date, Grand Menan, N. B., 
June 11. 
The Black-poll is not the last Warbler to reach us in the spring, but 
it is usually the last of the transients to leave us, the length of its stay 
and its abundance making its passage one of the features of the spring 
migration. In the fall it is even more abundant. Adults and young are 
now alike in plumage, but they are to be confused only with the much 
rarer Bay-breasts. 
Gerald Thayer (in “Warblers of North America”) describes the 
Black-poll’s main song, from which there are many variations, as “a 
string of six to twelve or more, short, equal and equally - divided sibi- 
lant notes, cobweb-thin and glassy-clear, — uttered rather fast; the whole 
song smoothly swelling in volume to the middle, or the second third, 
and then smoothly falling off.” 
662 . Dendroica fusca {Mull.). Blackburnian Warbler. Ad. — 
Center of the black crown, a line over the eye, patch behind the black 
ear-coverts, throat, and breast beautiful rich orange; back black, streaked 
with whitish; wing-coverts white, forming a large white patch on the wing; 
inner vane of most of the tail-feathers almost entirely white, except at the 
tip; the outer vane of the outer feather white at the base; belly tinged with 
orange, sides streaked with black. Ad. $ . — Resembles the d% but the orange 
markings are paler, the upperparts are ashy olive-green streaked with 
black and whitish; the white on the wings and tail is less extensive. Im. <?. — 
Resembles the 9 , but has the orange markings dull yellow, the crown-patch 
nearly absent. Im. 9. — Similar to the im. cf, but the yellow markings much 
paler, nearly buffy, the back browner. L., 5*25; W., 2*71; T., 1*96; B. from 
N., *31. 
Remarks. — In connection with other markings, the large amount of 
white in the tail, appearing on even the outer vane of the outer feather, is 
characteristic of this species. 
Range. — E. N. Am. Breeds in lower Canadian and upper Transition 
zones from Man. and Cape Breton Is. to cen. Minn., Wise., n. Mich., Mass., 
and Conn., and in the Alleghanies from Pa. to Ga.; winters from Colombia 
to cen. Peru. 
Washington, common T. V., Apl. 30-June 3; Aug. 14-Oct. 7. Ossining, 
common T. V., May 10-29; Aug. 15-Oct. 15. Cambridge, T. V., uncommon, 
May 12-22; rare, Sept. 15-30. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. 27-May 25; 
Sept. 1-25. Glen Ellyn, fairly common T. V., May 4-June 8; Aug. 12-Sept. 
22. SE. Minn., common T. V., May 3- ; Sept. 4. 
Nest, of fine twigs and grasses, lined with grasses and tendrils, in conifer- 
ous trees, 10-40 feet up. Eggs, 4, grayish white or bluish white, distinctly 
and obscurely spotted, speckled, and blotched with cinnamon-brown or 
olive-brown, *68 x *50. Date, Branchport, N. Y., May 24; Lancaster, N. H., 
June 4; Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June 2. 
The Blackburnian is uncommon enough to make us appreciate his 
unusual beauty. Coming in May, before the woods are fully clad, he 
seems like some bright-plumaged tropical bird who has lost his way 
and wandered to northern climes. The summer is passed among the 
