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Range (Eastern North America breeds) (XXXIX)

Eastern North America; breeds from northern Minnesota and northern New England northward; winters from the Middle States southward. Washington, abundant W. V., Sept. 28 to May 20. Sing Sing, common T. V., Apl. 13 to May 28; Aug. 16 to Nov. 11; a few winter. Cambridge, abundant T. V., Apl. 18 to May 20; Sept. 20 to Nov. 3; a few winter. Nest, of vegetable fibers lined with grasses, in coniferous trees five to ten feet up. Eggs, four or five, white or grayish white, distinctly and obscurely spotted and speckled or blotched with olive-brown or rufous-brown, 1.70 x 52. These strong, hardy Warblers leave their cousins of the woods and in loose companies forage in old fields and scrubby growths among the bayberry or myrtle (Myrica cerifera) bushes, which bear WOOD WARBLERS. their favorite food. So fond are they of these berries that their movements are largely governed by the success or failure of the bayberry crop. Near my home at Englewood, N. J., Myrtle Warblers are always common during the winter if there is an abundance of bayberries and always absent when the berries are wanting.

No Warbler is more easily identified than this bird with its four distinct patches of yellow. The yellow rump is conspicuous in life, and, in connection with the bird's characteristic tchip, forms an excellent field-mark. AUDUBON'S WARBLER (656. Dendroica auduboni), a species of the Western States, has been once recorded from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 657. Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.). MAGNOLIA WARBLER; BLACK