272 EEPOKT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



647 Vermivora peregrina (Wilson). 

 Tennessee Warbler. 



Adult male. — Length, 5. Wing, 2.(30. Above, plain olive-green, with top of 

 head gray ; a whitish line over the eye and a dusky streak thi-ough it ; lower 

 parts, white, tinged with b)iff on the sides ; no wing bars or tail markings. 



Adult female. — Similar, but with the gray cap obscured by olive. 



Young in first autumn. — Similar, but more buffy below and gray cap scarcely 

 distinguishable. 



I'are transient visitant, more common in antumn. Spring, May 

 loth to 25th; autnnin, August 25t]i to October 1st (Babson). 



One of the least distinctive of our migrant Warblers, closely re- 

 sembling the Xashville in habits. Very rare in spring. 



648a Compsothlypis americana usneae Brewster. 

 Northern Parula Warbler. 



Adult male. — Length, 4.25—4.75. Wing, 2.30. Above, grayish-blue, with a 

 yellow-olive triangular patch on the back ; coverts broadly tipped with white 

 forming two bars ; three outer tail feathers with subterminal white spots on 

 the inner webs, the outermost the largest : under side of body, yellow on throat 

 and chest, a pectoral band of chestnut with a darker spot in the center ; abdo- 

 men and sides, white, the latter streaked with chestnut ; a white spot on the 

 lower eyelid and a blackish spot in front of the eye. In autumn the colors are 

 veiled with olive above and yellow below, so that the markings are somewhat 

 obscured. 



Adult female. — Always duller than the male, with chestnut breast markings 

 often lacking. 



Young in first summer. — Gray, lighter beneath, and tinged with olive above ; 

 throat, yellowish. 



Nest in tufts of Usnea moss, made wholly of the moss itself ; eggs, four to 

 five, white, with fine rufous spots at the larger end, .64 x .44. 



Cojnmon summer resident '\n the pine barrens and casually so else- 

 wliere. though mainly a transient in otiier parts of the State. 



Arrives Apiil 28th (May -Lth), departs October 1st. 



The pine barren swamps, where all the bushes and dead trees are 

 festooned witii tlie long, giay '"okl man's beard" or Usnea moss, are 

 the home of the Parula, and from every side one can hear the fine 

 lisping song, ''pe-tsee, pe-tsee, pe-tsee-see," as Professor Jones writes 

 it. 



The birds are governed, in their distribution, by the abundance of 



