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flocks. These frequent the tops of trees in mixed woodland; oak and 
maple trees seem to be their favorite resorts for food.. They remain for a 
few days only, though I have seen stragglers as late as the 30th of May, 
In the fall they return in flocks of larger size than those of spring, tre- 
quenting the same resorts, though keeping nearer the ground. Their tall 
migration occupies most or all of September. | | 
The Blackburnian Warbier breeds in the United States from New York 
northward. Their nests are said to be placed in bushes, construcied of 
grass, and lined with fur and feathers; the eggs are white, spotted with 
purplish and brown. 
DENDR@CA srRIATA (Forst.) Bd. 
Wlack-poll Warbler. a 
Sylvia striata, KIRTLAND, Ohic Geol. Sury., Lodo, Los, Loz. 
Sylvicola striata, Reap, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1053, 423; Proce. Phila. Acad. Nat. sci., vi, 1853, 
39a. | , ; 
Dendroica striata, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 291—WHKATON, Ohio Agri. Rep. for 
1860, 364,; Reprint, 1861, 7. 
Dendraca striata, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 503; Reprint, 
1375, 3.— LANGDON, Cat. Birds of, Cin., 1877,5; Revised List, Jour. Cin, Soc. Nat Hist., 
i, 1879, 171; Reprint, 5. 7 
Muscicapa siriata, FORSTER, Philos. Trans., Ixil, 1772, 406, 428. 
Sylvia striata, LATHAM, Ind. Orn., 1790, 527. 
Sylvicola striata, SWAINSON and RICHARDSON, Fn. Bor. Am., ii, 1831, 218. 
3 Male, in spring: upper parts thickly streaked with black and olivaceous ash; whole 
crown pure black; head below the level of the eyes, and whole under parts whiie, the sides 
thickly marked with black streaks crowding forward on the sides of the neck to form 
.tWo siripes that converge to meet at base of the bill, cutting off the white of tue cheeks 
from that of ihe throat; wing bars and tail blotches white; inner secoudaries white 
edged; primaries usually edged externally with olive; feet and under mandible flesh 
color, or pale yellowish; upper mandible black. Female, in spring: upper parts, includ- 
ing the crown, greenish-olive, both thickly aud rather sharply black-streaked; white 
of under parts soiled anteriorly with very pale olivaceous-yellow, the streaks smatier and 
not so crowded as in the male. Young, closely resembling the adult female, but a 
brighter and more greenish olive above, with fewer streaks, often obsolete on the crown ; 
below more or less tinged with pale greenish yellow, the streaks very ebscure, some- 
times altogether wanting; under tail coverts usually pure white; a yellowish supercil- 
lary line; wing-bars tinged with the same color. Length 54-52; wing 22-3; tail 2-24. 
' Habitat, Eastern North America ; west to Nebraska and Colorado; nerth to Green- 
land; south to New Grenada. Cuba. Bahamas. 
Migrant. Irregular or rare in spring, abundant and regular in the fall. 
The Black-poll Warbler is considered by Mr. Dury as the rarest of the genus 
in spring in the vicinity of Cincinnati. In this locality I have but once 
found them in full force, spring of 1874, when they were in company 
