Color Key to North American Birds Part 57

Range.--Western United States; breeds in high mountains from British Columbia to California, and from Pacific Coast district of United States to Rocky Mountains; migrates to Lower California, Mexico, and Guatemala. (Bailey.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 684.]

=684. Hooded Warbler= (_Wilsonia mitrata_). L. 5.7. Outer tail-feather with white patches. _Ad._ [Male]. Forehead and cheeks yellow; hindhead extending to breast and throat black; belly yellow; back olive-green.

_Ad._ [Female]. Throat yellow, hindhead olive-green usually with black. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _cheep_; song, a gracefully whistled _you must come to the woods, or you wont see me_.

Range.--Eastern United States; breeds north to southern Connecticut, central western New York, and southern Michigan; winters in Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 531.]

=531. Lawrence Goldfinch= (_Astragalinus lawrencei_). L. 4.7. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown, throat and front of cheeks black; body _gray_, breast, rump, wings and, to a less degree, back with yellow; outer tail feathers with large white spots near the end. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but no black, back browner and without yellow. _Notes._ Suggesting those of the Goldfinch, but weaker.

Range--California, west of the Sierra; breeds from northern Lower California north to Chico, California; winters to Arizona and New Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 642.]

=642. Golden-winged Warbler= (_Helminthophila chrysoptera_). L. 5.

_Ad._ [Male]. Crown yellow, wing-bars broadly yellow; above bluish gray; below grayish white; throat-patch and eye-stripe black. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown duller; throat-patch and eye-stripe gray. _Notes._ Song, a lazy _zee-zee-zee-zee_ all on same note.

Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from northern New Jersey and northern Indiana north to Vermont, southern Ontario, and Michigan, and south along Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters in Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 678.]

=678. Connecticut Warbler= (_Geothlypis agilis_). L. 5.5. Eye-ring white; no white in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and cheeks bluish slate; throat and breast paler, the latter with no black; above olive-green; below yellow, sides greenish. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng._ Throat and breast olive _brown_; belly yellow; back brownish olive-green; crown browner. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _peek_; song, suggesting that of Maryland Yellow-throat and also that of Oven-bird, _free-chapple_, _free-chapple_, _free-chapple_, _whoit_. (Seton.)

Range.--Eastern North America, north to Maine and Manitoba; known to breed only in Manitoba; winters in northern South America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 679.]

=679. Mourning Warbler= (_Geothlypis philadelphia_). L. 5.4. No white in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. No white eye-ring; crown and cheeks bluish slate; throat blackish; breast black more or less veiled by slaty; belly yellow; back olive-green. _Ad._ [Female]. Head slaty; throat and breast _grayish_; an inconspicuous white eye-ring. _Yng._ Similar, but browner above; throat more yellow. _Notes._ Song, clear and whistled, _tee te-o te-o te-o we-se_, the last couplet accented and much higher pitched. (Jones.)

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England, northern New York and eastern Nebraska north to Nova Scotia and Manitoba, and south along the Alleghanies to West Virginia; winters in Central and South America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 680.]

=680. Macgillivray Warbler= (_Geothlypis tolmiei_), L. 5.4. _Ads._ Similar to No. 679, but with an incomplete white eye-ring showing above and below eye.

Range.--Western North America from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific; breeds from western Texas and mountains of southern California north to British Columbia; in migrations ranges east to Nebraska and middle Texas; winters in Mexico and Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 656.]

=656. Audubon Warbler= (_Dendroica auduboni_). L. 5.6. Crown, sides of breast, rump, and _throat_ usually with yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat bright yellow; breast black; back blue-gray streaked with black; wing-bars broadly white; outer tail-feathers with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to male, but breast grayish; yellow less bright; less white in wings. [Male], _Winter_. Like same plumage of No. 655, but throat, yellowish; more white in tail. [Female], _Winter_.

Similar, but less yellow, throat sometimes without yellow, when like No. 655, but white on four or five outer tail-feathers instead of on two or three.

Range.--Western United States; breeding in higher mountains from southern California and New Mexico north to British Columbia; winters south into Mexico.

=656a. Black-fronted Warbler= (_D. a. nigrifrons_). Similar to No.

656, but _Ad._ [Male]. with forehead, sides of crown, and ears black; back black, narrowly margined with bluish gray. _In winter._ Bluish gray, not brownish above. Ad. [Female] darker, more heavily streaked with black above. (Ridgw.)

Range.--Mountains of northern Mexico north to southern Arizona.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 657.]

=657. Magnolia Warbler= (_Dendroica maculosa_). L. 5.1. Rump yellow; seen from below a white band across middle of tail. _Ad._ [Male].

Crown ashy, back black; wing-coverts broadly white; below yellow streaked with black. _Ad._ [Female]. Duller; fewer black stripes below; wing-bars separated, narrow. _Yng. and Ad in winter._ Crown and sides of head brownish ashy, back olive-green; below yellow, sides occasionally streaked. _Notes._ Song, a loud, clear whistle, _chee-to_, _chee-to_, _chee-tee-ee_, uttered rapidly and with a falling inflection, (Langille.)

Range.--Eastern North America, west in migrations, to the Rockies; breeds from northern New England, northern Michigan (and south along the Alleghanies to Pennsylvania), north to Quebec and Hudson Bay region; winters in Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 663.]

=663. Yellow-throated Warbler= (_Dendroica dominica_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Throat and _line from bill to eye_ yellow; cheeks and forehead black; back bluish gray; two broad white wing-bars; tail-patches white.

_Notes._ Song, loud, ringing and ventriloquial; suggesting that of Indigo Bunting but shorter.

Range.--Southeastern United States; breeds from Florida north to Virginia and winters from Florida south into West Indies.

=663a. Sycamore Warbler= (_D. d. albilora_). Similar to No. 663, but bill smaller, line from eye to bill white or with but traces of yellow.

Range.--Mississippi Valley; breeds from Texas north to Kansas, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and West Virginia; winters in Mexico and Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 664.]

=664. Grace Warbler= (_Dendroica graciae_). L. 5. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat and line over eye yellow; cheeks gray; above gray, crown and back with black streaks; wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female].

Similar, but duller, back sometimes brownish.

Range.--Northwestern Mexico, north to New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, and Arizona.

=686. Canadian Warbler= (_Wilsonia canadensis_). L. 5.6. No white in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. A necklace of black spots on breast; back gray; belly yellow; forehead black. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng._ [Male].

Black areas smaller. _Yng._ [Female]. Slightly yellowish above; necklace slightly indicated by dusky spots. _Notes._ Song, _tu-tu_, _tswe_, _tu_, _tu_, longer or shorter and suggesting in style of utterance both the Yellow Warbler and Goldfinch. (Jones.) (See page 190.)

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Ma.s.sachusetts, central New York, and northern Michigan north to Labrador and Manitoba, and south along the Alleghanies to North Carolina; winters in Central and South America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 640.]

=640. Bachman Warbler= (_Helminthophila bachmanii_). L. 4.2. Outer tail-feathers usually with a white patch more or less distinct. _Ad._ [Male]. Breast-patch and crown-band black; forehead, chin and belly yellow; back olive-green, hindhead grayish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish olive-green, head grayer; below dingy grayish with a yellow tinge. _Notes._ Song, when migrating, resembles that of Parula Warbler, (Brewster); when breeding, that of Worm-eating Warbler, Junco or Chippy. (Widmann).

Range.--Southeastern United States, west to Louisiana, north to Virginia and southern Indiana; rare on Atlantic coast; known to breed only in Missouri; winters south of United States.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 641.]

=641. Blue-winged Warbler= (_Helminthophila pinus_). L. 4.8. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and underparts yellow; back olive-green; a black stripe through eye; two whitish wing-bars; outer tail-feathers with white patches. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, less yellow on head, duller below.

_Notes._ Song, a wheezy, _swee-chee_, the first inhaled, the second exhaled; also, later, _w??_, _chi-chi-chi-chi_, _chr_, _ch??-chr_.

Range.--Eastern United States; breeds north to southern Connecticut and Minnesota, occasionally wanders to Ma.s.sachusetts; winters south of United States.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 670.]