DAS BIRDS—SYLVICOLID A, 
the breeding season in Northern Ohio. In the fall, it is here throughout 
September and the first two weeks in October. The highest colored 
Sprcimens are to be looked for among the first arrivals in spring. — 
The nest of this bird is usually placed in high trees in dense woods. 
It is small and compact, constructed of twigs, grasses and vegetable 
down. The eggs are white, blotched and dotied ne reddish and pur- 
plish brown. They measure ./0 by .50. 
DENDR@CA CHRULESCENS (Gra.) Bd. 
Petacharha eave c Leslie Warbler. 
Sylvia canadensis, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. § Surv., 1838, 163, 182. 
Sylvicola canadensis, READ, Fam. Visitor, i, 1853, 423 ; Proce. Philad. Acad, Nat. Sci., vi, 
1853, 395: i 
Dendroica canadensis, Barry, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 271 —Wueaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 
for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1861, 5 : | 7 } 
Dendreca cerulescens, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc , Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1674, 563; Re- 
print, 1875, 3.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin,, 1877, 5; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soe. 
Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 172; Reprint, 6. | 
Motacitla canadensis, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 336, 
Sylvia canadensis, LATHAM, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 539. 
Sylvicola canadensis, RICHARDSON, Rep. Br. Ass. for 1836 (1837), 172: 
Motacilla cerulescens, GMELIN, Syst. Nabe i, 1788, 960. 
Dendroica cerulescens, BAIRD, Rev. N. A. Bind 8, 1865, 186. 
Dendreca ceerulescens, SUNDUVALL, CIN K. Vot.-akad , 111, 1869, 610. 
Male, in spring: above, uniform ate blue, the perfect continuity of lhe is Sas in- 
terruyted, in very high plumages, by a few black dorsal streaks; below pure white; the 
sides of the head to above the eyes, the chin, throat, and whole sides of the body con- 
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tinuously jet-black ; wing burs ante , (the coverts being black, edged with blue) but a 
large white snot at the base of the primaries ; quill feathers blackish, outwardly edged © 
with bluish, the inner ones mostly white on their inner webs; tail with the ordmary 
‘white blotches, the central feathers edged with bluish; bill black; feet dark. Youug 
‘yaale, siiuilar, but the blue glossed with olivaceous, and the black Setea pted and re- 
tricted. Feniale entirely different; dull olive greenish, ‘with faint bluish shade, below, 
pale soiled yellowish; recognizable by the white spot at the base of the primarics, which 
though it may be reduced to a mere speck, is always evident, at least on pushing aside 
the primary coverts; fail blotches small or obscure; feet rather pale. Size of virens. 
Havitat, Hastern United States. West Indies. 
Common spring and fall migrant. Arrives the first week in May and 
returns in September. Usually seen in small companies of from three to 
ten or twelve in woodland, often near the ground in shady wet places. 
Mr. Read states that it prefers dark evergreen woods. It is usually more 
common in spring than in the fall, and more terrestrial than many of 
the genus, “i | 
