. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. miimi kn 242 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. Descbiption. Above uniform olive-green; the middle of the back streaked with Under parts and sides of the head, including a broad superciliary lino ffum'^e nos- trils to a little behind the eye, bright-yellow, brightest anteriorly; a well-defined arr
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. miimi kn 242 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. Descbiption. Above uniform olive-green; the middle of the back streaked with Under parts and sides of the head, including a broad superciliary lino ffum'^e nos- trils to a little behind the eye, bright-yellow, brightest anteriorly; a well-defined arrow stripe from the commissure of the mouth through the eye, and another from the same point curving gently below it, also a series of streaks on each of the body, extending from the throat to the flanks, black; quills and tail feathers brown, edged with white J the terminal half of the inner web of the first and «e<=on'l ""1 feathers white; two yellowish bands on the wings. Female similar, but duller; the dorsal streaks indistinct. ^ . a .» Length, four and eightj'-sixone-hundredths inches; wing, two and twenty-five one-hundredths j tail; two and ten one-hundredths inches. This beautifvil bird is not very common in any part of New England; and it appears, to be a rather rare species north of Massachusetts, whicii State seems to be its northern breeding limit. It makes its appearance about the third week in May, and commences building about the last of that month. I have been so fortunate as to find two nests in Norfolk County, and have had another nest and eggs sent me from Belmont, in this Sljate: I have also known of sev- eral other nests being found, and judge that the species breeds not uncommonly in Massachusetts and the other two southern New-England States. Tliese nests were all placed in low barberry bushes, in rocky localities. They are ex- ceedingly neat structures, the most so of any of our New- England Warblers' nests: they are constructed of var
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