. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . lumage, and browner above. Length, five and sixty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, twoand fifty one-hundreths inches. The Yellow-rumped or Golden-crowned Warbler is veryabundant in all parts of New England as a spring and fallvisitor. It arrives from the South
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . lumage, and browner above. Length, five and sixty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, twoand fifty one-hundreths inches. The Yellow-rumped or Golden-crowned Warbler is veryabundant in all parts of New England as a spring and fallvisitor. It arrives from the South about the 20th of April,and passes quickly northward. But few breed south of the northern parts of Maine,and probably not a great manypass the season of incubationthere. When with us in thespring, they are found in thepastures, woods, orchards, andswamps, equally distributed,and evincing no partiality forany particvilar locality. Theyare then very active, and are constantly engaged in theirsearch for insects. Their note is nothhig but a kind of tchip and a tinklingtweeter, which they utter occasionally, both while on thewing and while perching. I have heard of no nest being found in either of thesouthern New-England States, — have met with but one inMassachusetts, and have heard of but two or three THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 227 This nest was built in a low barberry-bush in Walthani: itwas constructed of fine grasses and the down from materials were carefully woven together into a neatlabric, wliich was lined with cottony substances and a fewhorsehairs. The eggs were three in number: these wereof a creamy-white color, covered sparsely with spots andblotches of different shades of reddish-brown, thickest atthe large end of the egg. Dimensions of the eggs: .68 inch, .67 by .50 inch, .66 by .49 inch. Audubondescribes a nest and eggs sent him from Nova Scotia asfollows: — It resembles that of the Sylvia cestiva of Latham, being firm,compact, the outer
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