. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Mexico;casual in southern California. Nest. â By two specimens, in pines, 50 to 60 feet from the ground,made of vegetable fibers, straws, and horsehair; also, in one case, strings,oak catkins, bud scales, wool, vegetable down, and insect webbing. Fggs :3 or 4, white, lightly spotted with reddish brown. The Grace warblers are birds of the coniferous forests of the south-western mountains. In the Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, we meta small flock of them passing thr
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Mexico;casual in southern California. Nest. â By two specimens, in pines, 50 to 60 feet from the ground,made of vegetable fibers, straws, and horsehair; also, in one case, strings,oak catkins, bud scales, wool, vegetable down, and insect webbing. Fggs :3 or 4, white, lightly spotted with reddish brown. The Grace warblers are birds of the coniferous forests of the south-western mountains. In the Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, we meta small flock of them passing through the pines at about 8000 feet. 665. Dendroica nigreseens (Towns.). Black-throated Gray Warbler. Adult male in spring and summer. â Whole head, throat, and chest black,except for white streaks on side of head and along throat, and bright yellowspot over lores; breast and belly pure white: sides streaked with black;back gray, more or less streaked with black ; wings with two white bars ;tail with inner webs of two outer feathers mainly white. Adult femalein spring and summer: similar, but colors duller; crown usually WOOD WARBLERS 419 streaked with black; black of throat largely mixed with white. Adult malein fall and winter: like summer male, but gray of upper parts tinged withbrown, and black markings restricted, some-times nearly obsolete. Adult female in falland winter: like summer male, but plumag-esofter and streaks on back and upper tailcoverts obsolete or wanting. Young male infirst fall and winter: like adult winter male,but gray of upper parts browner; crownbrownish gray except on front and sides;streaks on back and upper tail coverts ob-solete or concealed; black of throat withwhite tips to feathers; white of under parts ^i° ⢠^^^^ Black-throated Graytinged with yellowish. Young female in first fall and winter: entire upper parts brownish gray, crown bordered withdusky ; white of under parts strongly tinged with brown. Male: length(skins) ,
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