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their favorite food. So fond are they of these berries that their move- ments are largely governed by the success or failure of the bayberry crop. Near my home at l‘lnglewood. N. J.. Myrtle \Varblers are always eoinmou during the winter it' there is an abundance of bayberries and always absent. when the berries are wanting.

No \\'arbler is more easily identified than this bird with its four distinct patches of yellow. The yellow rum]: is conspicuous in life, and. in eonneet’ion with the bird‘s eha ‘aeteristie [6711]», forms an excel- lent, field-mark.

Arm‘noy‘s “VARIKHCJ: 40:71}. Dem/rw'ea «rm/ubom'i. a speeies ot' the Western States1 has been once recorded from Massaelmsetts and Pennsylvania.

657. Dendroica. maculosa. (Gnu/4. Manxoma WAImLi-zn; BLACK AND Yi:1.1.ow \VAiuiLica. (Fig. W.) All. a .#t,‘ro\\‘n bluish gray, eheeks and forehead blaek. a white line behind the eye; back blaek, bordered with olive— green. a large white pateh on the wing—eoverts: rump yellow. tail black, in- ner vanes of all but the central feathers with white patches on t/zu'r middle, the end third of the feather being entirely Lia/1' ’ throat yellow, breast and sides heavily streaked with black. :11]. 9.~Similar, but with the colors duller and less sharply detined: baek greener. Ina—Top and sides of the head ashy: baek olive-green. with nearly eoneealed black spots; two narrow \\'iu;_r~bars; rump yellow; Mi? as in Na» «(z/alts; under parts yellow; whiter on the belly; sides with a few black streaks. L., 5'12; W.7 2‘30; T.. 2'00; B. from X. '30.

[innards—1n any plumage this bird may be known by the white patches

on the tail bein}.r near the middle instead ot' at the tip of the feathers.

[flung/uiliastern North America: breeds from northern Michigan and northern New England to Hudson Bay and southward along the crests of the Alleghanies to Pennsylvania: winters in (‘entral America.

Washington, eommon T. \‘.. .-\pl. is to May :1”: Aug. J?) to Oct. 10. Sing Sing, common T. \'.. May a to 3*: A1191!) to ()et. 11. Cambridge, common T. \'.. May 12 to 27». Sept. ‘10 to (,tet. 5.

X's-t. ot' tine twigs, leat‘ stems, ete.. lined with hairlike rootlets. in conif- erous trees, usually three to six t'eet up. [Lit/lily“, three to tire. white. marked with eiunamon— and olive—brown. chiefly in a wreath about the larger end, ’tjo' x '49.

Adult Magnolia \Varblers are so distinetly marked that Ordinarily they may be identified at. sight. Immature birds are less strikingly colored. but in any plumage the species may be known by having the white tail-spots nearer the middle than the ends of the feathers. Seen from below, the birds thus appear to have a white tail broadly banded with black.

The. Magnolia‘s summer home is among the spruees and hemloeks. its song. which is of somewhat the same eharaeter as that of the Yel— low Warbler, is described by Mr. Langille as "a loud. clear whistle,