. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . hite ; bill blackish ; feet brown. Adultfemale : Similar, less highly colored, black on head obscure orwanting, chestnut streaks thinner or fewer. Young : Very differ-ent ; entire upper parts clear yellowish-green ; below, entirely purewhite, or with slight traces of the chestnut streaks; no distincthead-markings; wing-bars yellow; bill light below. Length, ; wing, ; tail, A common summer resident of New England atlarge, breeding rather more numerously in the Alle-ghanian than in the Cana-dian Fauna ; in
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . hite ; bill blackish ; feet brown. Adultfemale : Similar, less highly colored, black on head obscure orwanting, chestnut streaks thinner or fewer. Young : Very differ-ent ; entire upper parts clear yellowish-green ; below, entirely purewhite, or with slight traces of the chestnut streaks; no distincthead-markings; wing-bars yellow; bill light below. Length, ; wing, ; tail, A common summer resident of New England atlarge, breeding rather more numerously in the Alle-ghanian than in the Cana-dian Fauna ; in southern NewEngland, nevertheless, moreabundant during the migra-tions than in summer. It ar-rives the first week in May,and is generally distributedby the middle of that month,in open mixed woods, thick-ets, orchards, and gardens,occurs in September. Beingwidely diffused during migration, and frequenting cul-tivated grounds more at that season than when retiredand settled for the summer, it is more conspicuous abird in spring and fall than in the breeding Fig. 34.—Chestnut-sided War-bler. (Natural size.) The return movementmost active and most 142 SYLVICOLID^ : AMERICAN WARBLERS. The nest is usually coarser than that of the YellowBird i^D. cBsiiva)^ and contains fewer woolly mate-rials. It is often composed outwardly of narrow stripsof thin bark or dried grasses, mixed with a few bits ofplant-down, and inwardly of very fine straw, which islined with hairs. Such is the description of two nestsbefore me. The nests are commonly placed from twoto eight feet above the ground, in a low bush, shrub,or sapling, and are either built in a fork or otherwisesecured (but are never pensile). The situations gen-erally chosen are the scrub-lands, or open woods inlow grounds which contain bushes, vines, etc. NearBoston they are usually finished, and contain four orfive fresh eggs, about the first of June. The eggsaverage . of an inch, and are generally whitewith purplish, or
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