Identifier: cu31924022517365 (find matches)
Title: The warblers of North America
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Wood warblers Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rger spots of the same color, more heavily at thelarger end. There are also a number of spots of light lilac which arenot conspicuous. They measure .57x48; .65x46; .59x47; .61x46.(Norris.5) Nesting Dates.—Bangor, Me., June 4 (Knight); Caribou, B. C,June 15, newly hatched young (Norris). Biographical References (1) C. J. Maynard, Birds of Coos Co., N. H., and Oxford Co., Me.,Proc. Bost. Soc, N. H., XIV, 1871, 7. (2) C. Hart Merriam, Birds of theAdirondack Region, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, 1881, 227. (3) Ernest Thomp-son Seton, Birds of Manitoba, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1891, 617. (4) W. Faxon,On the Summer Birds of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Auk, VI, 1889, 102.(5) J. Parker Norris, Jr., Nesting of the Tennessee Warbler in British Colum-bia, Auk, XIX, 1902, 88. Orange-crowned Warbler HELMINTHOPH1LA CELATA CELATA (Say) Plate VII Distinguishing Characters.—General color dusky olive-green, the under-pays obscurely streaked; adult c?, and often ?, with an orange-brown crown- Plate VII
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1. Tennessee Warbler, Male. 2. Tennessee Warbler, Female. 3. Orange-crowned Warbler, Male. 4. Orange-crowned Warbler, Female.5- Nashville Warbler, Male.6. Nashville Warbler, Female. ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER 87 patch; virtually no white in wings or tail. For comparison with young ofBachmans Warbler see under that species. Length (skin), 4.50; wing, 2.4s;tail, 1.go; bill, .40. Adult d, Spring.—Upper parts olive-green tipped with grayish, except onrump; an orange-brown crown-patch tipped with olive-green and gray; eye-ring and a narrow line from bill to above eye, yellow or yellowish; tail exter-nally olive-green, inner margin of inner vane of outer feathers often white-edged; wings edged with olive-green, their bend yellow; underparts duskygreenish yellow indistinctly streaked. Adult d, Fall—Similar to above, but grayish tips to feathers above andbelow longer, making the bird duskier. Young $, Fall.—Similar to adult c? in Fall, but crown-patch very small orentirely absent. Adult ?,

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