WARBLERS: GRACE WARBLER 
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and restricted, the olivaceous back streaked, wings usually with two white bars. 
Adults in fall and winter: Similar to spring adults but colors duller. Y oung in juvenal 
plumage: Upperparts brown, color pattern of adult male partly suggested in pale 
buffy; wings as in winter adults but white bars tinged with brownish buff. 
Range. —Breeds in Lower Canadian and Upper Transition Zones from Manitoba, 
southern Keewatin, Quebec, and Cape Breton Island to southern Alleghenies, south¬ 
ern New England, northern Michigan, and central Wisconsin; winters from central 
Mexico to Venezuela and Peru; in migration to Nebraska, Texas, and Kansas, 
straggling to Utah, New Mexico, and Bahamas. 
State Record. —When Stephens visited the State, in 1876, he found the Black¬ 
burnian Warbler and, as his notes record, “killed a female, near Fort Bayard, New 
Mexico in May.” He is the only one who has met this species in the State and it is 
an accidental visitor, since it comes west regularly not farther than the eastern 
side of the plains.—W. W. Cooke. 
GRACE WARBLER: Dendroica graciae Baird 
Plate 64 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 4.3-4.6 inches, wing 2.5-2.0, tail 1.8-1.9, 
bill .4, tarsus .7-.8. Female slightly smaller. Adult male in spring and summer: 
Upperparts , including cheeks and sides of neck, slate-gray; crown and back narrowly 
streaked with black, tail with two outer feathers largely white on inner webs; wings 
with two white bands; line over eye, spot on lower lid, and anterior underparts bright 
yellow; rest of underparts white, sides streaked with black. Adult male in fall and 
winter: Similar to spring male but upperparts washed with brown, the black mark¬ 
ings on crown, back, and sides obscured. Adult female in spring and summer: Like 
spring male but duller, gray of upperparts tinged with brown, black streaks indis¬ 
tinct, wing bars narrower, yellow and white duller. Adult female in fall and winter: 
Like adult male in winter. Young in juvenal plumage: Upperparts brownish tinged 
with olive, wing coverts conspicuously tipped with whitish; underparts gray or white, 
breast, belly, and sides spotted with blackish. 
Comparisons. —At all seasons, adults and young may be known by their yellow 
throat, gray cheeks, and gray back. 
Range. —Breeds chiefly in Transition Zone in mountains of southwestern 
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua and Sonora; winters in Mexico to 
Michoacan; casual in migration to central Colorado and western Texas. 
State Records. —The Grace Warbler breeds sparingly in the lower mountains 
of New Mexico, east to Mesa Yegua, 7,400 feet, where it was common June 25, 1903 
(Bailey); near Las Vegas, at 8,500 feet, June 12,1898 (Mitchell); Tres Piedras, 8,000 
feet, July 11-19, 1892 (Loring); [not uncommon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 
where a male was seen on Lake Peak, at 12,400 feet, and June 13, 1922, three near 
the Lake Peak trail, 9,000-10,000 feet (Jensen).] At Pogosa Springs, Colorado, just 
over the New Mexico line, it was one of the most abundant Warblers among the pines 
at 7,000 feet, May 28, 1907 (Cary). It has also been found breeding at 9,000 feet, 
June 16, 1909, on the top of Bear Ridge in the Zuni Mountains (Goldman); at 
Inscription Rock, July 24, 1873 (Henshaw); on Pinos Altos Mountains, 8,000 feet, 
July 8, 1894 (Fisher); and young of the year, July 31, 1909, in the pines on top of the 
mountain 20 miles northwest of Fort Defiance and just west of the New Mexico 
line (Nelson). [At Lake Burford a small number of males were seen on June 9 and 
16, 1918 (Wetmore); and one was taken April 20, 1919, at. the G. O. S. Ranch 
(Kellogg).] 
