92 LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS 



and stripe through eye, black. Tail-feathers white-blotched. 

 9 with less pure colors than $ . 



(b). The nest is placed on the ground, in woodland, gener- 

 ally near swamps, and is variously lined. Four eggs taken bj'' 

 me from a nest found near Boston average about •68X'55 of 

 an inch, and are white, marked, chiefly at the great end, with 

 reddish-brown^ They were taken on the 8th of June and cor- 

 respond with those found by Mr. Maynard on June 12th, 1869. 



(c) . The Golden-winged Warblers have at last been recog- 

 nized as summer-residents in Massachusetts of no very great 

 rarity, and are not so largely migrant through this State, as 

 was once supposed, for indeed it probably forms nearly their 

 most northern limit. They reach the neighborhood of Boston 

 about the 10th of Ma}^, and do not retire to the South until 

 September. During the summer they inhabit woodland, par- 

 ticularly that which is swampy, but soon after their an-ival 

 I have several times met theul among the trees on cultivated 

 estates, where I have noticed, contrary to the observations of 

 some other persons, that they remain chiefly on or near the 

 ground (not infrequently, however, among the higher branches), 

 and rarely catch insects on the wing. On the contrary, they 

 often recall the titmice. The}' have a habit, observable in 

 their relations, of occasionally hopping from the ground to 

 snap an insect from the foliage above. 



(cZ). Their notes are a tsijy, a louder c7i?j), and a sharp alarm- 

 note. They als'o have a brief and rather unattractive song 

 of four or five peculiar syllables, uttered in a characteristic, 

 rather harsh tone, and resembling clsee-dsee-dsee-dsee. 



BB. LEUcoBRONCHiALis. WhUe-throcUed {Golden-ivinged) 

 Warbler. 



The following is an extract from the " Quarterly Bulletin of 

 the Nuttall Ornithological Club," for April, 1876 (Vol. I, No. 1). 



^^Description of a New Species of Helminthophaga ; by William 

 ^^ Brewster. Helminthophaga leucobronchialis. PL I. 



" Adult male : summer plumage. Crown, bright yellow. 



