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seen around Vera Cruz in autumn by Mr. Bullock. On 

 its arrival it frequents gardens, orchards, and willow trees, 

 gleaning among the blossoms, but at length withdraws 

 into the silent woods remote from the haunts of men, to 

 pass the period of breeding and rearing its young in 

 more security. The nest, according to Wilson, is placed 

 in a thick tuft or tussuck of long grass, occasionally 

 sheltered and concealed by a briar. It is usually built 

 in the form of an inverted funnel, the bottom thickly 

 bedded with dry leaves ; the sides are framed of the dry 

 bark of stout plants, and the interior lined with slender 

 dry grass. The materials, instead of the usual circular 

 arranorement, are inclined, or shelve downwards on all 

 sides from the top to the bottom, which is narrowed. 

 The eggs, 5, are pure white, with a few pale spots of red- 

 dish near the greater end ; the young are hatched by the 

 first week in June. 



Length 5^ inches ; alar extent 7^, Vent white. Wings and tail 

 deep brown, edged with pale blue. Bill black above, lighter below. 

 Legs pale bluish. Feet dirty yellow. — The female scarcely differs 

 from the male. 



GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 



(Sylvia chrysoptera, Lath. Wilsojv, ii. p. 113. pi. 15. fig. 6. [male]. 

 BoNAP. Am. Orn. i. p. 12. pi. 1. fig. 3. [female], Phil. Museum. 

 No. 7010.) 



Sp, Charact, — Dark^bluish-grey ; crown and wing-coverts golden- 

 yellow ; beneath white ; throat and band through the eye black. 

 — Female olive ; front and wing-coverts yellow ; breast, and over 

 the eye, dusky. 



This scarce species appears only a few days in Penn- 

 sylvania about the last of April or beginning of May. 

 It darts actively through the leafy branches, and like the 

 Titmouse examines the stems for insects, and often walks 

 with the head downwards ; its notes and actions are also 



