OS BIRDS—SYLVICOLIDA. 
locality the Black and Yellow Warbler arrives during the first week in 
May, and frequents woods and banks of streams, and sometimes visits 
the gardens of the city. It is usually found feeding in the undergrowth, 
and lower branches of trees, and is very active; its bright colors, and 
neat appearance, as it hops from branch to branch, make it one of the 
most attractive birds of the family I have seen it here during the first 
week in June, which indicates its breeding at no great distance. Mr. 
Reed (i. c. Fam. Vis.) says ““some linger with us and doubtless raise 
their young here, as I have observed it during the middle of summer, 
evidently procuring food for their young, though I was unable to find 
their nest.” | : 
They begin to return in August, and usually have all left this latitude 
by the Ist of October. 
The Black and Yellow Warbler has been found breeding from Western 
New York northward to Labrador. The nest is usually placed in a low 
spruce, but a few feet from the ground. It is constructed of twigs, root- 
lets. and grass. The eggs are dull white, sparsely marked with lilac and 
umber. They measure 62 by .51. 
DeNDR@OCA TIGRINA (Gm.) Bd. 
Cape May Warbler. 
Sylvia maratima, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Sarv., 1&33, 163, 181; Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 
x], 1841, 23. 
Sylvicola maritima, READ, Fam. Vis., iii, 1853, 415; Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Scei., vi, 1853, 
39d. 
Dendroica tigrina, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 364; Reprint, 1861, 6. 
Dendreca tigrina, WHeATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio. Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; Re- 
print, 13875, 4.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 5. 
Perissoglossa tigrina, LANGDON, Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1°79, 171; Re- 
print, 5. 
Motacilla tigrina, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, $85. 
Sylvia maritima, WILSON, Am. Orn., v:, 1812, 99. 
Sylvicola maritima, JARDINE, ‘‘Ed. Wilson, 1832” 
Dendroica tigrina, BAIRD, Birds N. Am., 1258, 286. 
Dendreca tigrina, SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1861, 71. 
Perissoglossa tigrina, BaiRD, Rev. N. A. Birds, 1865, 181. 
Male, in spring: back yellowish olive, with dark spots; crown blackish, more or less 
interrupted with brownish; ear-patch orange-brown; chin, throat, and posterior portion 
of a yellowish superciliary line, tinged with the same; a black loral line; rump and 
under parts rich yellow, paler on belly and crissum, the breast and sides streaked with 
black; wing-bars fused into a Jarge whitish patch; tail blotches large, on three pairs of 
retrices; bill and feet black. Female in spring: somewhat similar, but lacks the dis- 
tinctive head markings; the under parts are paler and less streaked ; the tail spots small 
or obscure; the white on the wing less. Young: an insignificant-looking bird, re- 
sembling an overgrown Ruby-crowned Kinglet without its crest; obscure greenish olive 
