MAGNOLIA WARBLER
657. Dendroica magnolia. 5 inches.
Male, with black ear patch, back, and necklace; female, with the black replaced with grayish; both sexes have a yellow rump and white spots midway of the tail feathers.
One of the prettiest of the Warblers and one of the least timid. I have often had one or more of these birds follow me the whole length of a piece of woods apparently out of curiosity, coming down to the nearest twigs within arms’ reach of me. Birch woods are their favorites during migrations, although a few of them will be found almost anywhere.
Song.—A short, rapidly uttered warble.
Nest.—Usually in coniferous trees, far out on the longer branches, where they are often difficult to get at, of rootlets lined with fine black rootlets and hair; four or five white eggs with small spots of chestnut around the large end (.60 × .48).
Range.—Eastern N. A., breeding from Massachusetts and Michigan northward; winters south of the U. S.
CERULEAN WARBLER
658. Dendroica cærulea. 5 inches