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Tuttle conducted me to a nest of the Nashville warbler which was hidden 

 by a tuft of dead grass among a growth of sumacs along the edge of a 

 sloping field near a hemlock wooded gully. The surroundings were quite 

 open. The nest is very flimsy, fragile and shallow-cupped, made of thin 

 dead grasses and bits of moss, lined with a few reddish tendrils and hair. 

 It contained 5 eggs." 



Vermivora celata celata (Say) 

 Or a nee-crowned Wa rbler 



Plate 93 



Sylvia celatus Say. In Long's Exped. 1823. 1 : 169 (note) 

 Vermivora celata DcKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 87 

 Vermivora celata celata A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 308. 

 No. 646 



celata, Lat., concealed, referring to the more or less hidden crown patch 



Description. L T pper parts olive green, more or less washed with grayish 

 except on the rump which is brightest; a crown patch of orange brown 

 more or less concealed by gray and olive green; eye ring and a narrow 

 line over the eye dull yellowish; the outer tail feathers frequently have 

 the inner edge of the inner web margined with whitish; wider parts dull 

 greenish yellow obscurely streaked with dusky. 



Distribution. Breeds from Alaska to central Keewatin, and Manitoba, 

 and in the Rocky mountains locally to New Mexico; winters in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States and Mexico. In New York this species is only 

 a transient visitant, rare in eastern New York in the spring but more 

 often observed in the fall. In western New York, however, it is a regular 

 migrant, though in small numbers, in the spring, arriving from the 12th 

 to the 17th of May, and disappears from the 18th to the 21st. Mr E. S. 

 Woodruff took one at Paul Smith's in the Adirondacks, May 17, 1908. 

 In the fall, migration takes place between the 25th of September and the 

 [2th of October. It is decidedly less common than the Tennessee warbler 

 1 h >th in the spring and fall as would be expected from the remoteness of 

 its breeding range to the northwestward. 



During migration it is found in the orchards, shade trees and groves 

 in situations similar to those frequented by the Nashville and Tennessee 



