THE BIKDS OF .\EW Ji:i;.SEY. ;^67 



squeaking •^ee-j^aw. "ki-tsee, ki-lst'c'-. ki-tsee, see, see," acoented on tlie 

 last syllable of each couplet. 



Tills species nests ratlier sparingly hotli within and without the pine 

 barrens in south Jersey and rather more plentifully northward. 



637 Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert). 



Prothonotary Warbler. 



Adults.— hength, 5.25. Wing, 2.90-3. Back of head to middle of back, yel- 

 low-olive : lower back. rump, winss and tail, blue-gray ; head, crown and under 

 parts to flanks, bright canary-yellow : under tail-coverts, white, and white 

 marks on inner webs of all but the central tail feathers. 



The Prothonotary Warbler's claim to a place in the New Jersey list 

 rests upon a specimen obtained at Princeton by Professor A. H. 

 Phillips, May 8th, 1894,^ and an individual seen at Haddonfield, 

 early in the eighties, by Mr. S. X. Rhoads.- 



639 Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin). 

 Worm-eating Warbler. 



Adults. — Length, 5.50. AYing, 2.75. Above, grayish olive-green ; crown and 

 sides of head, buff : a broad black stripe down each side of the crown and a 

 narrow one behind the eye ; under parts, buff, becoming whitish on the abdo- 

 men ; crissum mottled with olive. 



Young in first sinnnicr. — Everywhere cinnamon, darker above; wing and tail, 

 olive, head markings indistinctly indicated. 



Xcst on the ground of leaves and grass, lined with moss stems ; eggs, four 

 to five, white, speckled with reddish-brown, .70 x .52. 



Local and rather uncommon summer resident in the middle counties 

 and Hudson Valley.^ Not found in the pine barrens, and very rare 

 on the Delaware, south of Trenton. Arrives April 29th (May 9th), de- 

 parts September 1st. 



This is a rather common bird in wooded ravines in southeastern 

 Pennsylvania, but is rarer in Xew Jersey and unknown as a breeder 

 in the southern half of the State. 



' Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 71. 

 - Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 129. 



" Chapman. Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., V., p. S, and Birds vicinity X. Y.. 

 p. 177, also Rhoads, Cassinia, 1901, p. 50. 



