BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 257 
Dr. Brewer describes the nest as built of “strips of the bark of the 
smaller vegetables, strengthened by a few stems and bits of dried grasses, 
and lined with woolly vegetable fibres and a few soft hairs of the smaller 
animals.” The eggs are “rich creamy-white, and are beautifully spotted, 
chiefly ab ut the larger end, with two shades of purple and purplish- 
brown. They measure .65 by .49 of an inch.” 
DENDR@CA MACULOSA (Gm.) Bd. 
Wiack and Yellow Warbler. 
= 
Sylvia magnolia, WiLson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 63. 
Sylvia maculosa, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163, 181. 
Sylvicola maculosa, AUDUBON, B. Am., ii, 1841, 65.—Reap, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 415; 
Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sei., vi, 1853, 395. 
Dendroica maculosa, Barrp, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 285.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1860, 1861, 364; Reprint, 6.—BaiIRD, BREWER and Rip@way, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 
233. 4 
Dendreca maculosa, WHEATON, Foed of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep for 1874, 1875, 563 ; 
Reprint, 3—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 5; Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., i, 1879, 171; Reprint, 5. 
Motacilla maculosa, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., 1, 1788, 924. 
Sylvia maculosa, LATHAM, Lod. Orn., il, 1790, 536. 
Sylvicola maculosa SWAINSON and RICHARDSON, Fn. Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 213. 
Dendreca masulosa, SCLATER, Proc. Zo6l, Soe , 1859, 363. 
Male, in spring: back black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive; rump yellow ; 
crown clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, behind the eyes by a white stripe ; 
furehead end sides of the head black, continuous with that of the back, enclosing the 
white under eyelid; entire under parts (except white under tail coverts) rich yellow, 
thickly streaked across the breast and along the sides with black, the pectoral streaks 
crowded and cutting off the detinitely Lounded immaculate yellow throat from the yel- 
low of the other under parts; wing-bars white, generally fused into one patch; tail 
spots small, rectangular, at the middle of the tailand on all the feathers except the central pair; 
bill black; feet brown. Female, in spring: quite similar; black of back reduced to 
spots in the grayish olive; ash of head washed with olive; other head markings ob- 
secure; black streaks below smaller and fewer. Young quite different; upper parts 
ashy olive; no head-markings whatever, and streaks below wanting, or confined to a 
few sma}! ones along the sides, bnt always known by the yellow rump, in connection 
with extensively or completely yellow under parts (except white under tail-coverts) and 
small tail spots near ihe middle of all the featiers except the central. Small, 5 inches 
or less; wing 245 tail 2. 
Habitat, Eastern Province of North America to Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, Great Slave 
Lake, etc.; west to Colorado; south to New Granada. Cuba. Bahamas. 
Abundant and regular spring and fall migrant in Middle Ohio; sum- 
mer resident in small numbers in Northeastern Ohio. Wilson first 
saw this bird on the Little Miami, near its mouth. Given by Mr. 
Langdon as a spring and fall migrant; common in September. In this 
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