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Black-throated Green Warbler
Adult male--Upper parts olive green; two white wing bars, bright yellow cheeks, and line over eye; under parts, throat, breast, and streaks on sides of flank black; belly white, more or less tinged with yellow.
Adult female--Very similar, the throat having yellow mixed with black. Length--5.10.
Breeding Range--The higher parts of the Alleghanies to South Carolina, and northward from Connecticut and northern Illinois.
The nest is a beautiful compact structure of small twigs (usually of hemlock or spruce), lichen, moss, grass, wool, and bark, lined with plant down, hair, grass, and feathers. It is generally placed in a coniferous tree, at a height varying from ten or fifteen to fifty feet. The eggs, 3 or 4 in number, are creamy white, spotted, specked, and rarely blotched with orange brown, chiefly at the large end. Size--.64 x .52.
These birds during the breeding season inhabit almost exclusively the dense coniferous or mixed forests, where in June they build their nests.