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BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
tiful warbler as a regular and moderately common summer resident in 
the mountainous districts of romantic Lycoming county. Its nests have 
been taken, it is said, in low bushes in Crawford county. I have taken 
several of these warblers in Centre, McKean and Susquehanna counties 
late in June and early in August. This species is generally found in 
woods or thickets, but often, when migrating (especially in spring), these 
birds visit orchards. Commonly seen singly or in pairs, but occasion¬ 
ally in spring I have seen companies of six to eight together and in one 
instance a dozen of these bright orange-throated beauties were observed 
feeding together in a couple of beech trees in a woods along the 
Youghiogheny river in Fayette county. Food about the same as that 
of the Black-poll. 
Dendroica dominica (Linn.). 
Yellow-throated Warbler. 
Description. 
Sexes (adults) alike. Length about 5|; extent about 8§. Bill and legs black. 
Bill is long, measuring along exposed culmen .48 (average of six specimens), much 
compressed and sharp pointed ; maxilla somewhat curved. Above plain bluish- 
gray and unstreaked; edges of middle and greater coverts form two white wing 
bands; inner webs of three pairs of outer tail-feathers spotted with white toward 
the end. Top of head to about middle of eyes black ; lores and patch on sides of 
head, continuous with patch on sides of neck, deep black ; a white spot below eye is 
encircled by black which borders the bright yellow throat patch ; six specimens 
before me have yellow of chin separated from bill by a few white feathers ; white area 
on side of neck separating black from bluish-gray ; under parts, except as already 
mentioned, white, conspicuously streaked on sides with black. A long stripe runs 
from base of maxilla to nape, this stripe from bill and almost reaching the eye is 
usually yellow, then it becomes pure white. 
Habitat .—Southeastern United States, north to the Middle States, and rarely to 
southern New England ; south in winter to the West Indies. 
The Yellow-throated Warbler is a very rare and irregular summer 
visitor in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. Dr. W. P. Turnbull 
includes this species in his list of stragglers in the lower counties of 
eastern Pennsylvania. The late C. D. Wood, of Philadelphia, showed 
me a pair of these warblers which he had captured about the middle of 
June in Delaware county. I have in my collection two specimens shot 
in Chester county, both are males, one was taken June 27, 1879, the 
other July, 1885. It is possible that this southern bird occasionally 
breeds within or near our southern borders. In the numerous reports 
which I have received from various observers in different parts of 
Pennsylvania no mention is made of the Yellow-throated Warbler. In 
the winter of 1885 I found this species in small flocks and quite abund¬ 
ant in jjine, palmetto and oak trees at different points along the St. 
John’s river, from Palatka southward to Sanford. Feeds on beetles, 
larvae, ants, spiders, etc. 
