The Haunts 01 the Golden-winged Warbler, 

 — Its Summer Home.— 



During the breeding season the Golden-wing is irregularly 

 distributed throughout this part of Pennsylvania. A long 

 stretch of ridge land with patches of dry, leafy forests, culti- 

 vated fields and cleanly kept pasture lands, is no place to seek 

 the home of this little fellow. But immerge, after hours spent 

 in exploring hundreds of acres of such land, into a field abund- 

 antly supplied with damp or springy places, with rank — but 

 closely rooted — grass, clumps of bushes, briers, etc., and the 

 adjacent forest skirted with a like growth, and the birds can 

 be found. 



If the held be a large one, more than one pair of birds 

 may be expected, but a whole day's search may not reveal 

 a nest. A field of fifteen acres, bordering an undergrowth 

 woods and having other favorable conditions is almost cer- 

 tain to be the home of one pair. Smaller tracts do not always 

 possess a nesting pair, but here and there a very small fav- 

 orable nook of less than a quarter acre, in the edge of a 

 woods is selected, and two such places entirely surrounded by 

 woods was inhabited annually until the undergrowth crowded 

 out the grass. One of these places was still used during 1903 

 where, within a few feet of a former nesting site, I found a nest 

 containing two young of the Warbler and one of the Cowbird. 

 I have never found a nest in the creek bottom lands, but 

 always well up the side or on top of a hill. 



Four different places which contain nesting pairs every 

 summer have been selected for description in this topic, which, 

 with their accompanying plates, should give a good idea of 

 the summer home of this bird. 



Rush's Is situated one-half mile south of Waynesburg, is a 

 Hollow narrow and deep ravine, rocky and almost perpendic- 

 ular near its junction with the Smith Creek Valley. 



