84 NEW- YORK FAUNA — BIRDS. 



Rump, tail-coverts, wing-coverts and outer webs of the primaries blue. Head greenish-olive, 

 passing into bluish on the back of the neck. Intcrscapulary region tawny orange. Beneath, 

 chin lemon-yellow ; throat bluish ; breast reddish orange, with light reddish drab on the 

 sides ; belly and vent soiled white. 



Length, 5 - 0-5'5. Alar extent, 7 - 0-7 - 5. 



I have never had the fortune to meet with more than two of this rare and beautiful species. 

 It probably breeds within this State, as I found the young in the neighborhood of my resi- 

 dence in August. It lays 4-6 white eggs with a few pale reddish spots at the larger end. 

 Its geographical range, as far as has been yet traced, is from Mexico to New-York, which 

 appears to be its extreme northern limit. 



THE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 



Vermivora chrysoptera. 



PLATE LII. FIG. 118 (Male). 



(STATE COLLECTION. Cabinet Lyceum.) 



Motaeilla chrysoptera. L. 12 ed. p. 333. Pennant, Arct. Zool. Vol 2, p. 403, and p. 404. 



Sylvia id. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 113, pi. 15, fig. 5. Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Vol. 2, p. 87 ; Am. Om, 



Vol. 2, p. 12, p!. 1, fig. 3 (female). Audubon, folio, pi. 414 ; Orn. Biog. Vol. 5. p. 154. 

 Golden-winged Warbler. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 1, p. 411. 



Golden-winged Swamp Warbler. Audl'BON, Birds of Am. Vol. 2, p. 91, pi. 107 (male and female). 

 Helinaia chrysoptera. Gikaud, Birds of Long island, p. 68. 



Characteristics. Bluish grey. Crown and wing-coverts yellow. Chin, throat and eye- 

 stripe black ; beneath white. Female : Olive ; breast and eye-stripe 

 dusky. Length, 4j inches. 



Description. Bill slightly shorter than the head. First and second quills longest, sub- 

 equal. Tail 1 " 7 long, slightly emarginate ; its feathers acuminate, and 1 ■ 1 longer than the 

 tips of the wings. 



Color. Above bluish grey, obscurely touched with greenish. The yellow crown separated 

 from the black eye-stripe by a band of white over the eye. The black throat bounded by 

 white on the sides of the neck. Flanks pale ash. Outer webs of the primaries whitish, and 

 of the secondaries bright green. Upper mandible black ; lower horn-color. The three 

 external tail-feathers on each side with their inner vanes white. Female : Eye-stripe ash- 

 colored ; throat pale slate : two bright yellow bands across the wings. Quills as in the male, 

 broadly margined with white on their inner vanes. 



Length, 4"5-5 , 0. Alar extent, 7*0. 



The Golden-winged Warbler is a rare species in this State, although it has been observed 

 as far as 50° north. It winters in Mexico and the southern States. The specimen which 

 furnished the illustration was shot in Kings county, in the early part of May. Its history is 

 yet incomplete. 



