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until considerable snow has fallen. They probably winter not very far 
south of us, as the first birds to arrive in spring are usually in winter dress, 
or moulting. Mr. Langdon saw them as early as March 4, and as late.as 
November 29. They are the most hardy of all the warblers, wintering reo- 
ularly at Washington, D.C., and cecasionally in the Hudson River Valley. 
The Yellow-rump Warbler breeds in the extreme northern States and 
northward. The nest is placed in a bush; the eggs are white, blotched 
and spotted with different shades of brown and purplish. According to 
Mr. Brewster, the young in first plumage are very different from the adult, 
bearing a considerable resemblance to the Pine Linnet. 
DENDR@CA BLACKBURNIZ (Gmel.) Bd. 
lackburnian Warbler. 
Sylvia blackburnice, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1532, 163, 181. 
Sylvicola blackburnie, READ, Fava. Visitor, ii, is: a 415; Proce. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
1853, 395. ‘ 
Dendroica Mane ibvunrmneve, BairD P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 275.—WuHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. 
for 1860, 1861, 364; Reprint, 6.—BAIRD, BREWER and Ripeway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 
234. ‘ate 
Dendreca blackburnie, WHEATON, Food of Birds, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 563; 
‘Reprint, 3—LANGpDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 5; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat, 
Hist., i, 1879, 171; Reprint, 5. 
Motacilla blackburnie, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 977. 
Sylvia blackburnie, LATHAM, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 527. 
Sylvicola blackburnie, JARDINE, “Hd. Wils. i832.” - 
Dendreca tlackburnie, SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1859, 363. 
Male, inspring: back black, more or less interrupted with yellowish; crown black, with 
a central orange spot; a broad black stripe through the eye, enclosing ihe orange under 
eyelid; rest of head, with whole throat, most brilliant orange, or flame color; other under 
parts whitish, more or less tinged with yellow, and sides streaked with Bee wing 
bars fused into a large white patch; tail blotches white, occupying nearly all ne outer 
feathers; bill and feet dark. Female and young male: upper parts olive and black, 
streaked ; superciliary line and throat clear yellow fading insensibly on the breast ; lower 
eyelid y Silo, confined in the dusky ear-patch ; wing patch resolved into two. pars: tail- 
blote nee nearly as extensive as in the adalt male, the outer feathers showing white on 
the outer webs at base. Size ef estiva. | 
Habitat, Eastern North America. South to WEETOO. Central and South America to 
Hceuador. Utah. New Mexico. Bahamas. 
Regular spring and fall migrant. Abundant. This beautiful warbler, 
by many considered the most attractive of the family, arrives from the 
south about the end of the first week in May. The first to appear are — 
males in high plumage. These frequent the wooded banksof streamsand _— 
are usually solitary birds accompanying other species. In the course of 
another week females and less highly colored males arrive, often in large 
