48 NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. BIRDS. 



8l. HKLMINTIIOPIIAOA CHRVSOPTERA. 



GOLDEN WINGED WARBLER. 



This warbler occurs in the Eastern rrovinceof tlie United States. 

 It is nowhere a common species. "Dr. Samuel Cabot was the 

 first Naturalist to meet with the nest and eggs of this l)iril. This 

 was in May, 1837, in Greenbrier County, Va. ■■■■••■■■ 



The late Dr. Alexander Gerhardt found the nest and eggs of 

 this Warbler in the Spring of 1S59, in Whitfield County, Ga. It 

 contained four eggs, and was built on the ground. It was very 

 large for the bird, being five inches in height and four in diameter. 



The cavity was also quite large and deep for so small a bird, ex- 

 ceeding three inches both in depth and in diameter. 



The outer and under portions of this nest were almost entirely 

 composed of the dry leaves of several kinds of deciduous trees. 

 These were interwoven with and strongly bound together by black 

 vegetable roots, dry sedges, and fine strips of pliant bark, and the 

 whole lined with a close net-work of fine leaves, dry grasses, and 

 filnous roots. Dr. Gerhardt informed me that these birds usually 

 build on or near the ground, under tussocks of grass, in clumps of 

 bushes, or pine-bush, and that they lay from four to five eggs, from 

 the 6th to the 15th of May. The eggs of this s])ccies are of a beau- 

 tiful, clear crystal-white, with a few bright niKlish-brown spots 

 around the larger end. Eggs from Racine, Wis., and from North- 

 ern Georgia, differ greatly in their relative size. The former 

 measure .70 of an inch in length and .53 in breadth; the latter, 

 .63 by .49. — Baird, Brewer and Ridgvvay's N. A. Birds, vol. i 

 pp. 193, 194. 



82. helminthopiiaga leucobronciiialis, 



WHITE-THROATED WARBLER. ** 



83. IIKLMINTIIOPIIACA I.UCJ.K. 



LUCY'S WARBLER. 



"We are indebted to Captain Hendire for the discovery of the 

 nest and eggs of this comparatively new Warbler. He first met 



