PASSERES — SYLVICOLHXE — SYLVICOLA. 101 



THE PINE WARBLER. 



Sylvicola pinus. 



TLATE LII1. FIG. 120 (Female). 

 (STATE COLLECTION.) 



Sylviapinus, Latham. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 3, p. 25, pi. 19, fig. I (male). Bonaparte. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



Vol. 2, p. 81. 

 <S. pinus. Audobon, fol. pi. 140 (adull) ; and Tireo vigorsri (young) ; Orn. Biog. Vol. 2, p. 232, and Vol. 1. p. 153. 

 Pine Warbler. Nuttall, Man Orn. Vol. 1, p. 387. Bonaparte, Comp. List, p. 22. 

 Pine-creeping Wood-warbler. Audubon, B. of A. Vol. 2, p. 37, pi. 82 (m;ile and female). 

 S. pinus. Gikaud, Birds of Long island, p. 51. 



Characteristics. Bright olive ; beneath yellow. Wings and tail brown ; the former bifa- 

 sciate with white. Vent white : two outer tail-feathers partly white. 

 Female and young, olive green ; yellowish and grey beneath. Length, 

 five inches. 



Description. First and second quills subequal ; the first longest ; the others successively 

 shorter. Tail emarginate, - 6 longer than the closed wings. 



Color. Above of a uniform rich yellow green ; a shade lighter on the frontlet. A line 

 over the eye, throat, breast and sides yellow; the breast obscurely streaked with dusky on 

 the sides. Primaries edged with white ; secondaries with light brown. Two or three of 

 the outer tail-feathers with a band of white on the inner web near the end. Female and 

 young, very plain colored ; the upper surface dull greenish ; beneath obscure brownish, or 

 soiled white with a tinge of yellowish. 



Length, 5-0-5-5. Alar extent, 8 • - 8 • 5. 



The Pine Warbler is not an uncommon species in this State, more particularly in the 

 northern parts, where it breeds. Eggs greenish white, with numerous pale brown spots. 

 They reach this State from the Southern States about the first week in April, and do not leave 

 us until October or November. Feed on various insects and their larva? in the summer and 

 autumn, and on different seeds and berries during the winter. Ascend to the 50th degree of 

 north latitude, and winter in the Southern States. Mr. Giraud has observed it breeding on 

 Long island. 



