BIRDS OF KANSAS, 507 



horizontal forks of a limb and near the end of the boughs. A 

 rather small, compact structure, composed of fine strips of bark, 

 stems of plants, bits of leaves, slender twigs, interwoven with 

 tine grasses and feathers, and lined with hairs and fine, downy 

 shreds from plants. Eggs usually four, . 67x. 52; creamy white, 

 spotted with obscure lilac, yellowish to red and dark brown, 

 usually with confluent blotches about the larger end; m form, 

 oval to rounded oval. 



Dendroica vigorsii (Atro.). 



PINE WARBLER. 



Mio-ratory; rare. Arrive in April; return the last of Sep- 

 tember to first of October. The birds have not as yet been 

 found nesting in the State, but I feel confident that they do oc- 

 casionally breed in the eastern portion. They often remam 

 until late in the fall. 



B. 198. R. 111. C. 134. G. 50. 289. U. 671. 



Habitat Eastern North America; north to New Brunswick 

 and Manitoba; west to the Plains; breeds nearly throughout its 

 range, wintering in the more southern States, the Bermudas and 



Bahama Isles. 



SP CHAR. -Spring male: Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive green, 

 the feathers of the crown with rather darker shafts; nnder parts generally ex- 

 ept the middle of the body behind, and under tail coverts i-^^^^l^l^^^^ 

 bright gamboge yellow, with obsolete streaks of dusky on the s.des of the breast 

 and body; sides of head and neck olive green like the back, with a broad super- 

 dlLy sti pe; the eyelids and spot beneath the eye very obscurely yellow; wmgs 

 and tai brown, the feathers edged with dirty white, and two bands ot the same 

 aero s the cov;rts; inner web of the first tail feather with nearly the ternnnal 

 half and of the second with nearly the terminal third, dull, inconsp.cuous whue^ 

 Svrin, female: Similar, but more grayish above, and almost gray.sh white with 

 Sg of yellow beneath, instead of bright yellow. Young: Umber brown above 

 an 1X4 pale ashy beneath, with a slight yellowish tinge on the abdomen; wmg 

 Td t2n "ch as in the autumnal adult. Autumnal males are much hke spnng 

 •ndivTduris, but the yellow beneath is softer and somewhat richer, and the ohve 

 above overlaid with a reddish umber tmt." 



Len,,. "'^S:^ ^V'-n.^. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 5.50 9.00 3.00 2.40 .73 .45 



Female.... 5.20 8..50 2.75 2.20 .71 .42 



Iris brown; bill dark brown, the under pale at base; legs 

 brown; feet and claws dark brown. 



