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which may be imitated by the. syllables Maw—Ir). (fltl‘fl'ltl, c/weer-ea uttered rapidly and ending in the falling intlection.

658. Dendroica. czerulea t [Fl/m. Clilit'lJ-ZAN Wain-aim. Ad. 5i slipper parts bright blue. the sides ot‘ head and baek streaked with black; wmv' and tail edged with blue; two white wing~l>arsg inner vanes 01' all but the. ( entral tail—t'eathers with white patehes at- their tips; under parts white, 11 bluish black band across the breast: sides streaked with bluish black. All. 9.—-vl'pper parts bluish olive-green: wings and tail as in the 5; under parts white. generally more or less tinged with pale yellow. 1m..ib'unilar to ad. 9 , but yellower. L. tint; \\'., 2-0.3: 13. from X. '31.

liang/w.—l’»1'eed> in the His. ssippi Valley as far north as Minnesota7 and eastward as tar as Loekport. X. Y. tl)avison .; winters in the tropies.

“'ashingtom very rare 'l‘. V.7 two instances. May.

Jul. ot' tine gr; ‘ s bound with spiders” silk. lined with strips of bark and tine grasses and with a tow lichens attached to its outer surt'aee‘ in a tree, twenty-live to fifty feet: troni the ground. Eng/s, tour, er -amy white. thickly eovered with rather heavy blotches of reddish brown, '00 x 47 tAllcn, Bull. Nutt. (trn. ('lub. iv, 1570, p. 2m.

In writingr of this species as observed by him in Ritchie County, \Vest Virginia. Mr. Brewster says:

“ Decidedly the. most abundant of the genus here. The first speci- men taken May 3. They inhabit: exclusively the tops of the highest forest trees. in this respeet. showing an aflinity with I). lilizcirlmmz‘w. In actions they most, resemble l). [Iens_1//2wn1'e(t, ‘arrying the tail rather high and having the same ‘sinart bantamlike appearanee.’ \Vere it not for these prominent ehal'aeteristies they would be very ditlieult to distinguish in the tree tops from I’m-Illa [: ('oni/muth/j/ln's] mnerfrrmrl, the songs are, so precisely alike. That of the latter bird has, however. at least, two regular variations: in one. beginningr low down, he rolls his guttural little trill quickly and evenly up the seale, endingr apparently only when he ‘tlll get, no higher: in the other the eommeneement of this trill is broken or divided into syllables. like 2M, 20/}. 21w. 3(’-I’I'—I‘l‘-(‘l‘/l, This latter variation is the one used by 1). (’(l’l'II/Wl, and [could deteet little or no ditl'erenee in the songs of dozens of in- dividuals. At best it is a modest little strain and far from deserving: the eneomium bestowed upon it. by Audubon, who deseribes it’ as ‘ex- tremely sweet amt mellow": (leeidedly it, is neither of these. and he must. have confounded with it some other speeies. ln addition to the Song;r they utter the almost universal llendroieiue lisp and also the. (-ha‘aeteristie [rile/J of I). roman/o. which [ had previously supposed

: entirely peculiar to that, bird."

659. Dendroica. pensylvanica, t Lin/1.). (ll!r1s'l‘.\‘l"l‘n<lht-1h “Hua-

i mun. (Fig.1ovl.) .ltil. 5.7('rown bright yellow. :1 black line behind the

eye; front part. ot‘ the cheeks blaek; ear-eoverts white; back streaked with