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of a northern winter have passed away, and permitted the 

 great bird-wave to roll over the resurrected land once more, 

 has no right to see, nor the soul to feel the joy of a thing of 

 beauty. 



Notwithstanding this bird has been considered too southern 

 for the latitude, it is annually a Minnesota visitor, coming in 

 sufficient numbers to assure us that it has by no means reached 

 the most northern limits of its migration. About the 10th or 

 12th of May, it comes with the great bird-throng of the spring, 

 and remains in sufficient numbers for about ten days to make 

 the collection of several for the cabinet in the course of half a 

 day's hunt, a pretty sure thing to the experienced collector. 



Although no nests have come under my own eye, nor have 

 any been reported to me as yet, I confidently believe it breeds 

 throughout the State as well as in the British possessions. 

 One individual was obtained about the 3d of September, in its 

 southern migration, and in mature plumage. Since writing 

 the above Mr. Treganowan writes: "I have the nest and eggs 

 of the Blue- winged Warbler, obtained May 22nd, (1877) in Big 

 Stone. It was on the ground in a cluster of hazel brush, in the 

 borders of a grove of forest trees. The locality was near a 

 dwelling, and the nest consisted of strips of bark from dead 

 poplars, and was lined with fine grasses quite artistically ad- 

 justed and interwoven. There were five white eggs spattered 

 with dirty brown, darker colored and more numerous at the 

 larger end." 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Upper parts and cheeks olive- green, brightest on the rump; 

 wings, tail and upper coverts in part, bluish-gray; an intensly 

 black patch from the blue-black bill to the eye, continued a 

 short distance behind it; crown, except behind, and the under 

 parts generally rich orange-yellow. Wing with two white bands; 

 two outer tail feathers, with most of the inner web, and third 

 one with a spot at the end, white. 



.Length, 4.50; wing, 2.40; tail, 2,10. 



Habitate, eastern United States. 



HELMINTHOPHILA CHRYSOPTERA (L.). (642.) 



GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 



So far as I have been able to ascertain, this Warbler is not 

 by any means common. Indeed I had lived here seventeen 

 years before I saw one, and that was collected by Mr. T. S. 

 Roberts of this city. Since then few springs have come and gone 



