370 THE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 



pieces of rather coarse bark, then of fine strips of the same 

 and stems of dried grasses, and lined with fine hair-like 

 reddish fibers, which must be the inner bark of the wild 

 grape-vine. The eggs, five in number, small, about .48 x 

 .60, scarcely the size of the Goldfinches, are creamish- 

 white, delicately and sparsely specked with brown and lilac 

 at the large end. 



Wintering in Central America, the Golden-wing's sum- 

 mer range is to New England and Canada West, and west 

 to the Missouri. Its nest has been taken as far south as 

 Georgia. 



Similar to the last, but richer and darker in color, and 

 having the black patch on the throat much larger, is Law- 

 rence's Warbler [Hdminthophaga lawrencei), of which two 

 have been found in New Jersey. 



Very similar in size and form, as also in general colora- 

 tion, to the Golden-wing, is the White-throated Golden-wing 

 i^Helminthophaga leucobronchialis)^ discovered by Wm. Brew- 

 ster in May of 1870, in Newtonville, Mass. His description 

 is as follows: ''Crown, bright yellow, slightly tinged with 

 olive on the occiput. Greater and middle wing-coverts 

 yellow, not as bright as the crown. Superciliary line, cheeks, 

 throat and entire under parts, silky-white, with a slight 

 tinge of pale yellow on the breast. Dorsal surface — exclu- 

 sive of the nape which is clear ashy — washed with yellow, 

 as are also the outer margins of the secondaries. A narrow 

 line of clear black passes from the base of the upper 

 mandible, through and to a short distance behind the eye, 

 interrupted, however, by the lower eye-lid, which is dis- 

 tinctly white." 



At first it was thought by many to be simply a variety of 

 the Golden-winged Warbler, but up to May, 1879, some 

 nine specimens of the White-throated Golden-wing had been 



