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Range (Eastern North America breeds) (XXXXII)

Eastern North America: breeds from northern Minnesota and southern Maine northward to Labrador and southward along the Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters in the tropics.

Washington, common T. V., May 5 to 20; Aug. 20 to Oct. 5. Sing Sing, common T. V., May 10 to 29; Aug. 15 to Oct. 15. Cambridge, uncommon T. V., May 12 to 22; Sept. 15 to 30.

Nest, of fine twigs and grasses, gra lined with grasses and tendrils, in coniferous trees, ten to forty feet up. Eggs, four, grayish white or bluish white, distinctly and obscurely spotted, speckled, and blotched with cinnamon-brown or olive-brown, 68 x 50.

The Blackburnian is uncommon enough to make us appreciate his unusual beauty. Coming in May, before the woods are fully clad, he seems like some bright-plumaged tropical bird who has lost his way and wandered to northern climes. The summer is passed among the higher branches in coniferous forests, and in the early fall the bird returns to surroundings which seem more in keeping with its attire. Mr. Minot describes its summer song as resembling the syllables wee-seé-wee-seé-wee-seé (wee-seé-ick), while in the spring its notes may be likened to wee-see-wee-see, tsee-tsee, tsee, tsee, tsee-tsee, tsee, tsee, the latter syllables being on ascending scale, the very last shrill and fine.

WOOD WARBLERS. 663. Dendroica dominica (Linn.). YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. Ad.-A yellow line in front of the eye and a white line over it; upper parts gray, forehead blackish; wings and tail edged with grayish, two white wingbars; outer tail-feathers with white patches near their tips; cheeks and sides of the throat black; a white patch on the side of the neck; throat and breast yellow, belly white, sides streaked with black. L., 5.25; W., 2.60; T., 2.01; Β., 49.