NASHVILLE WAllLLER. 57I 



HABITS. 

 The Orange-crowned Warblers appear to be somewhat irregularly distrilnited through- 

 out Florida. They can be seen almost any day in autunni or winter on the trees in the 

 streets of Jacksonville, in company with other iSvlvicolidae, and are tokrablv conjnion in 

 the hammocks in the neighborhood of the city. I have fre(|uently found tliem in a nai- 

 row strip of woodland lying between the St. John's River and some cultivated fields; 

 indeed, it was in this place that I shot the first specimen that I ever saw. These birds arc 

 rare at Blue Spring, for in coui'se of two months" collecting we found l)ut two or three. 

 These were j^rocured in a hannaoc)\ near the head of the spring, and I never met with 

 them elsewhere in the vicinity. 



We searched in vain for them at Salt Lake, and I have never seen a single individ- 

 ual on Indian River or Mosquito Lagoon, yet we took several in the dense thickets back 

 of the old fort at Miami, l)ut I did not find them r,t Kc\ We.'^t. The Oranire-crowned 

 Warblers are lively little birds, usually fre(|nenting hammocks and the underbrush which 

 grows about them. I think they rarely visit the pine woods. Tliese Itirds are unsuspicious 

 and may be approached (piite nearly Init when alarmed will utter a ipiick, sharp chirp and 

 instantly conceal themselves in the nearest tliicket. I never heard them sing, and never 

 have seen a specimen during the nesting season, \et it is probable that a few breed in 

 the state. I obtiiined a single specimen at Williamsjwrt, Pennsylvania, May 15th, 1876, 



HELMINTHOPHAGA RUFiCAPILLA 



Nashviile Warbler- 



Helminthaphaga ruficapilla Bun-d, Birds of North America, 1858, 2.3(5. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 Form, slender. Size, small. Bill, not I mg. Tail slightly emarginatc. Wing bars and white spot on 

 tail absent. Sternum, rather slightly built and although a little smaller than that of the preceding, it is of 



the same fjrm and pioportious. Tongue, not long, thin, narrow and horny_ 

 The end is quite deeply cleft, but it is only ciliated on the e.xtreme end, and 

 there the cilia are very short 



Color. Adult male. Above, bright olivaceous green, with the head 



and neck above, and on the sides ashy. There is a partly concealed patch of 



chestnut on the crown. The wings and tail are brown, edged on the outer 



^ - webs with greenish. Bei>eath, very bright yellow, with the abdomen white. 



"'*''- There is an indication of a yellowish sujicreiliary line, and a ring around the 



Fig. 84. Head of eye is whitish. Adult female, very similar, but paler above and Ix'low, and 



Adult Nashville having less chestnut on the crown. The young lack the chestnut crown. The 



Warbler. head and neck are brownish instead of ashy ; there is a brownish suffusion 



over the back, and the yellow beneath is quite pale ; there is even a tinge of 



ashy on the throat. Irides, feet and bill, brown, but with the lower mandible lighter. 



OBSERVATIONS. 

 Easily known in the adult stage by the chestnut crown, ashy head and yellow under parts. The young 

 are also distinguished from those of II. celata by the yellow beneath, celata being very ashy gray on these 



