FAMILY Mniotiltidz. 
To imitate these high tones it is necessary to place the 
tongue in a rigid position behind the upper front teeth, 
an eighth of an inch, perhaps, away from them, and 
force the whistled tone between; the lips will easily 
manage the third interval by a slight shift. 
Golden-winged This beautiful gray Warbler with his 
Warbler ._ marks of gold and his funny, quizzical 
sie Seabee sh face (when you get a good front view of 
chrysoptera 
L.5.10inches it) is rather alate arrival. He appears in 
May 14th. the vicinity of New York about May 8th, 
and around Boston several days later. His colors are 
unique and refined. Top of head bright lemon yellow; 
upper parts a light blue-gray, with sometimes a slight 
greenish tinge; two narrow wedges of black extend 
from about the eye backward, and another from the 
chin downward, the intervening space being white; a 
narrow white line over the eye; two overlapping bars 
on the blue-gray wings form aconspicuous yellow patch; 
the three outer tail feathers have white patches on the 
inner vanes; sides light gray; lower breast and under 
parts white. Female similarly marked, but the black 
displaced by gray, and the yellow by pale ochre-yellow. 
Nest on the ground among the bushes in field borders; 
it is built of dead leaves, bark, and tendrils, and lined 
with finer material. Egg white speckled on the larger 
end with varied brown. The bird is distributed 
throughout the eastern United States and breeds in 
the more northern ones including northern New Jersey. 
It winters in Central and northern South America. I 
have never seen it in Campton, N. H., and according to 
Mr. Ned Dearborn’s report it has not been discovered 
within the limits of New Hampshire. It is, however, a 
common bird in the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, 
The song of the Golden-winged Warbler is something 
of a puzzle to the initiated as well as the uninitiated; 
it is generally reported as a monotonous Zee-zee-zee-zee, 
which is all right in part. Evidently it is a case of 
tone-deafness with those who have reported the song 
thus imperfectly, otherwise it is difficult to understand 
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