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Range (Eastern North America breeds) (XXXXIII)

Eastern North America; breeds from northern Illinois and Connecticut northward to Hudson Bay and southward along the Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters in the tropics.

Washington, very common T. V., Apl. 25 to May 28; Aug. 28 to Oct. 21. Sing Sing, common T. V., Apl. 30 to June 3; Sept. 1 to Oct. 26; a few breed. Cambridge, very common S. R., May 1 to Oct. 15.

Nest, of small twigs and moss, lined with rootlets, fine grasses, and tendrils, in coniferous trees, fifteen to fifty feet from the ground. Eggs, four, white, distinctly and obscurely spotted and speckled with olive-brown or umber, chiefly at the larger end, 65 x 46.

When migrating this species joins the ranks of the Warbler army and visits wooded land of almost any kind. When nesting it prefers coniferous forests, where it is a dweller among the tree tops. While resembling its congeners in general habits, the song of the Black-throated Green is so unlike their generally humble ditties that the bird seems possessed of more character than they impress us with having. Mr. Burroughs graphically represents its notes by straight lines:

V; a novel method of musical annotation, but which nevertheless will aid one in recognizing the bird's song. There is a quality about it like the droning of bees; it seems to voice the restfulness of a midsummer day.

TOWNSEND'S WARBLER (668. Dendroica townsendi), a species of western North America, has been once recorded from Pennsylvania. 670. Dendroica kirtlandi Baird. KIRTLAND'S WARBLER. Ad.- Head bluish gray, sometimes spotted with black; lores and sides of the throat black; back brownish ashy, spotted with black; no white wing-bars; outer tail-feathers with white patches on their inner webs at the tips; under parts pale yellow; sides streaked and spotted with black. L., 5-75; W., 2-75; T., 2.30; B. from N., 32.