re, grasses and pine needles, the three to five eggs
are greenish or bluish white marked with brown and lilac; size .68 x
.52. The one figured is from a beautiful set of four in Mr. C. W.
Crandall's collection, and the ground color is a delicate shade of blue.
Data.--Spanaway, Washington, April 23, 1902. Nest on the limb of a large
fir in a clump of three in prairie country.

656a. BLACK-FRONTED WARBLER. _Dendroica auduboni nigrifrons._

Range.--Mountains of southern Arizona and Mexico.

Similar to the preceding, but with the forehead and ear coverts black.
Their nests and eggs are in no way different from those of Audubon's
Warbler.

[Illustration 397: White.]
[Illustration: Bluish white.]
[Illustration: Myrtle Warblers. Audubon's Warblers.]
[Illustration: deco.]
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657. MAGNOLIA WARBLER. _Dendroica magnolia._

Range.--North America east of the Rockies, breeding from northern United
States to Hudson Bay region and in the Alleghanies, south to
Pennsylvania. Winters south of our borders. This species, which is one
of the most beautiful of the Warblers, is entirely yellow below and on
the rump, the breast and sides being heavily streaked with black; a
large patch on the back and the ear coverts are black. They build in
coniferous trees at any elevation from the ground, making their nests of
rootlets and grass stems, usually lined with hair; the eggs are dull
white, specked with pale reddish brown; size .65 x .48.
Data.--Worcester, Mass., May 30, 1895. 4 eggs. Nest of fine rootlets and
grasses about 30 feet up on the end of a limb of a pine overhanging a
brook.

658. CERULEAN WARBLER. _Dendroica caerulea_.

Range.--United States east of the Plains, breeding chiefly in the
northern half of the Mississippi Valley, rare east of the Alleghanies
and casual in New England. These beautiful Warblers are light blue gray
above, streaked with black on back, white below, with a grayish blue
band on breast and streaks on the sides; they have two wide white wing
bars and spots on the outer tail feathers. They are found chiefly in the
higher trees where they glean on the foliage; they build also usually
above twenty feet from the ground in any kind of tree, placing the nests
well out on the horizontal limbs, generally in a fork. The nests are
made of fine strips of bark, fibres, rootlets, etc., lined with hair;
the eggs are white or pale bluish white, specked with reddish brown;