i0 4 THE PINE WARBLER. 



part quickly and more vigorously uttered. 1 have written it thus : ter ter 

 tertee; tswee te chu." 1 



On the 28th of August, 1903, Professor Jones and the writer encoun- 

 tered two of these hirds in the extreme southern part of Lawrence County, 

 at a point opposite Ashland, Kentucky. The first bird seen loitered for as 

 much as ten minutes in the top of a little willow tree, and appeared in nowise 

 disturbed by our scrutiny. He was deliberate, not to say indolent, in move- 

 ment, and delivered from time to time a very light and pleasing rollick, with 

 something of the quality but nothing of the strength of the Myrtle's song. 

 After being observed for about twenty minutes the bird darted 

 down into a thicket where he was joined by another precisely similar, and 

 after a minute or two the pair retired into the depths. So far as reported 

 this was the first appearance of the Kirtland Warbler in the interior during 

 the fall migration. 



As this book is going to press word comes from Michigan that Mr. 

 Norman A. Wood of Ann Arbor has just discovered the nesting haunts of 

 the Kirtland Warbler in Oscoda County. According to the last issue of 

 the Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club, Vol. IV., No. 2, June, 

 1903 (really issued about July 10th), "Just after this issue has gone tc 

 press Mr. Wood returned home from his trip north in quest of the Kirtland's 

 Warbler with very gratifying success, having obtained a fine series of skins, 

 male, female, nestlings, full-fledged young, nest, and eggs.*' Bravo! and 

 alas ! The last shrine of ornithological mystery has been penetrated. There 

 are no more worlds to conquer. 



No. 73. 



PINE WARBLER. 



A. O. U. No. 671. Dendroica vigorsii (And.). 



Synonym. — Pine-creeping Warbler. 



Description. — Adult males: Above and on sides of head and neck bright 

 olive-green ; wings and tail dusky, edged with brownish gray or whitish ; two 

 broad whitish or grayish white wing bars; two outer pairs of rectrices extensively 



white on inner webs ; streak over lores, eyelids, chin, throat, and breast well down, 

 bright greenish yellow; streaked indistinctly on sides of breast and sides with 

 olive; belly and crissum dull white; buffy wash on flanks; bill and feet dark 

 brown. Adult female: Above olive-gray, or vinaceous gray with an olive tinge; 

 wing-bars narrower and more decidedly gray than in male ; below dingy or 

 grayish with pale yellow or yellowish tinge on breast ; traces of olive striping on 

 sides. In winter both sexes are browner above ; the male brighter yellow and 



1 The Wilson Bulletin, Xo. 3;. July. . S co. 



