WOOD WARBLERS 
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olive, gray, or brown, streaked with black except sometimes on rump; wings 
and tail dusky, wings with two white bands and greenish edgings; inner 
webs of two or three outer tail feathers with subterminal 
white patches; under parts white, chin usually black and 
sides heavily streaked with black. Adult female in spring and 
summer : similar, but upper parts dull olive green, streaked 
with black; wing bars tinged with yellow; under parts washed 
with pale yellowish, sides streaked with dusky. Adult male Fig. 52G. 
in fall and winter: upper parts olive green shading to gray Black-poll 
on upper tail coverts ; back and scapulars, sometimes crown Warbler, 
and rump, streaked with black; wing bars usually tinged with yellow ; 
superciliary olive yellowish ; throat, breast, and sides yellowish; sides and 
Hanks indistinctly streaked ; belly white. Young in first f all and winter: 
like adult fall male, but under parts yellow except on under tail coverts; 
upper tail coverts olive green instead of gray, back less distinctly streaked. 
Young , first plumage: upper parts light grayish brown, streaked with black 
except on rump, which is barred or mottled with black; under parts whitish, 
tinged with olive yellow in front, and mottled with dusky ; wings and tail as 
in winter birds. Male: length (skins) 4.65-5.51, wing 2.81-3.05, tail 1.91-2.13. 
Female: length (skins) 4.53-5.00, wing2.72-2.95,tail 1.77-2.01, bill .3S-.43. 
Distribution. — Breeds from northern New England and the Catskill 
Mountains west to the Rocky Mountains and north to Hudson Bay and 
Alaska ; migrates west to New Mexico, Colorado, and Montana, and south 
to northern South America, through West Indies ; not recorded from Mex¬ 
ico or Central America; accidental in Greenland. 
Nest. — On lower branches of coniferous trees, in the north often on the 
ground ; bulky, warmly lined with feathers. Eggs: usually 4, white, 
creamy, or buffy, spotted or blotched, often wreathed with brown and lilac 
gray. 
Food. — Insects. 
The eastern black-poll, Prof. Cooke says, comes regularly, but in 
small numbers, west to the Rocky Mountains, occasionally being 
common during migrations both on the plains and at the base of 
the foothills. There is one breeding record for Seven Lakes, near 
Manitou, Colorado, at an altitude of 11,000 feet. 
602. Dendroica blaekburnise (GW.). Blackburnian War¬ 
bler. 
Adult male in spring and summer. — Throat brillant orange yellow; rest 
of under parts pale yellowish; sides streaked with black; 
crown black with yellow or orange patch ; superciliary yel¬ 
low or orange ; rest of upper parts black, streaked with white 
on back ; wings with broad white patch ; tail with three outer 
feathers white except shafts and tips. Adult female : similar, Fi S- 527 - 
but black replaced by olive brown, streaked ; orange replaced by yellow; 
wings and tail duller, white markings restricted. Young male in first fall 
and winter: like adult female, but without yellow spot on crown; yellow 
of throat and chest paler. Young female in first fall and winter: similar 
to adult female, but upper parts browner, streaks less distinct; white 
markings restricted ; under parts buffy ; throat sometimes pale bufFy; 
streaks on sides dull brownish. Young, first plumage: upper parts brown, 
middle of crown lighter; back and rump indistinctly streaked ; supercil¬ 
iary stripe and throat pale buffy; chest darker, faintly spotted; rest of 
