Chapter I: Front Matter

[Transcriber's Note: Emphasis Notation: _Italic_ and =Bold=;
[M] and [F] represent male and female symbols respectively.
Mathematical Notation - Whole and Fractional Part: 3-5/8;
[=_] denotes the long sound, as in [=e]ve and [=u]se;
[)_] denotes the short sound, as in [)e]nd and [)i]ll.]

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_Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers_

_by_

_Arthur Cleveland Bent_

_in two parts

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CONTENTS

Page

Introduction ix

Order PASSERIFORMES 1

Family Parulidae: Wood warblers 1

_Mniotilta varia_: Black-and-white warbler 5
Habits 5
Distribution 14

_Protonotaria citrea_: Prothonotary warbler 17
Habits 17
Distribution 28

_Limnothlypis swainsonii_: Swainson's warbler 30
Habits 30
Distribution 37

_Helmitheros vermivoros_: Worm-eating warbler 38
Habits 38
Distribution 45

_Vermivora chrysoptera_: Golden-winged warbler 47
Habits 47
Distribution 56

_Vermivora pinus_: Blue-winged warbler 58
Habits 58
Distribution 65

_Vermivora bachmanii_: Bachman's warbler 67
Habits 67
Distribution 73

_Vermivora peregrina_: Tennessee warbler 75
Habits 75
Distribution 86

_Vermivora celata celata_: Eastern orange-crowned warbler 89
Habits 89
Distribution 94

_Vermivora celata orestera_: Rocky Mountain orange-crowned
warbler 98
Habits 98

_Vermivora celata lutescens_: Lutescent orange-crowned warbler 99
Habits 99

_Vermivora celata sordida_: Dusky orange-crowned warbler 103
Habits 103

_Vermivora ruficapilla ruficapilla_: Eastern Nashville warbler 105
Habits 105
Distribution 113

_Vermivora ruficapilla ridgwayi_: Western Nashville warbler 116
Habits 116

_Vermivora virginiae_: Virginia's warbler 119
Habits 119
Distribution 124

_Vermivora crissalis_: Colima warbler 126
Habits 126
Distribution 129

_Vermivora luciae_: Lucy's warbler 129
Habits 129
Distribution 134

_Parula americana pusilla_: Northern parula warbler 135
Habits 135
Distribution 145

_Parula americana americana_: Southern parula warbler 147
Habits 147

_Parula pitiayumi nigrilora_: Sennett's olive-backed warbler 149
Habits 149
Distribution 152

_Parula graysoni_: Socorro warbler 152
Habits 152
Distribution 153

_Peucedramus taeniatus arizonae_: Northern olive warbler 153
Habits 153
Distribution 160

_Dendroica petechia aestiva_: Eastern yellow warbler 160
Habits 160
Distribution 178

_Dendroica petechia amnicola_: Newfoundland yellow warbler 182
Habits 182

_Dendroica petechia rubiginosa_: Alaska yellow warbler 184
Habits 184

_Dendroica petechia morcomi_: Rocky Mountain yellow warbler 185
Habits 185

_Dendroica petechia brewsteri_: California yellow warbler 186
Habits 186

_Dendroica petechia sonorana_: Sonora yellow warbler 189
Habits 189

_Dendroica petechia gundlachi_: Cuban yellow warbler 190
Habits 190

_Dendroica petechia castaneiceps_: Mangrove yellow warbler 191
Habits 191

_Dendroica magnolia_: Magnolia warbler 195
Habits 195
Distribution 209

_Dendroica tigrina_: Cape May warbler 212
Habits 212
Distribution 222

_Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens_: Northern black-throated
blue warbler 224
Habits 224
Distribution 233

_Dendroica caerulescens cairnsi_: Cairns' warbler 237
Habits 237

_Dendroica coronata coronata_: Eastern myrtle warbler 239
Habits 239
Distribution 254

_Dendroica coronata hooveri_: Alaska myrtle warbler 258
Habits 258

_Dendroica auduboni auduboni_: Pacific Audubon's warbler 260
Habits 260
Distribution 271

_Dendroica auduboni nigrifrons_: Black-fronted Audubon's warbler 273
Habits 273

_Dendroica nigrescens_: Black-throated gray warbler 275
Habits 275
Distribution 281

_Dendroica towndsendi_: Townsend's warbler 282
Habits 282
Distribution 290

_Dendroica virens virens_: Northern black-throated green warbler 291
Habits 291
Distribution 304

_Dendroica virens waynei_: Wayne's black-throated green warbler 308
Habits 308

_Dendroica chrysoparia_: Golden-cheeked warbler 316
Habits 316
Distribution 321

_Dendroica occidentalis_: Hermit warbler 321
Habits 321
Distribution 328

_Dendroica cerulea_: Cerulean warbler 329
Habits 329
Distribution 335

_Dendroica fusca_: Blackburnian warbler 337
Habits 337
Distribution 347

_Dendroica dominica dominica_: Eastern yellow-throated warbler 349
Habits 349
Distribution 358

_Dendroica dominica albilora_: Sycamore yellow-throated warbler 359
Habits 359

_Dendroica graciae graciae_: Northern Grace's warbler 363
Habits 363
Distribution 367