BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. Igl 



The first specimen of this bird taken notice of by European writers 

 was transmitted, with many others, by Mr. William Bartram to Mr. 

 Edwards, by whom it was drawn and etched in the 277th plate of his 

 Ornithology. In his remarks on this bird he seems at a loss to determine 

 whether it is not the Pine Creeper of Catesby ;* a difficulty occasioned 

 by the very imperfect coloring and figure of Catesby's bird. The Pine 

 Creeper, however, is a much larger bird, is of a dark yellow olive above, 

 and orange yellow below ; has all the habits of a Creeper, alighting on 

 the trunks of the pine trees, running nimbly round them, and, according 

 to Mr. Abbot, builds a pensile nest. I observed thousands of them in 

 the pine woods of Carolina and Georgia, where they are resident, but 

 have never met with them in any part of Pennsylvania. 



This species is five inches and a half long, and seven and a half 

 broad; hind head and whole back a rich green olive; crown and front 

 orange yellow ; whole lower parts yellow, except the vent feathers, 

 which are white ; bill black above, lighter below : lores black ; the form 

 of the bill approximates a little to that of the Finch ; wings and tail 

 deep brown, broadly edged with pale slate, which makes them appear 

 wholly of that tint, except at the tips ; first and second row of coverts 

 tipped with white, slightly stained with yellow ; the three exterior tail 

 feathers have their inner vanes nearly all white ; legs pale bluish ; feet 

 dirty yellow ; the two middle tail feathers are pale slate. The female 

 differs very little in color from the male. 



This species very much resembles the Prothonotary Warbler of 

 Pennant and Buffon ; the only diflerence I can perceive on comparing 

 specimens of each, is that the yellow of the Prothonotary is more of an 

 orange tint, and the bird somewhat larger. 



* Catesby, Car. vol. i., pi. 6L 



