BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. 
south to the mountains of South Carolina, Tennessee, 
and Missouri. 
The Worm-eating Warbler apparently prefers dense 
thickets and swampy or wet situations; only here will his 
song be heard. It is somewhat similar to that of the 
Chipping Sparrow, a monotonously reiterated note, high- 
pitched and weak in tone, with more of the insectlike 
quality of the Grasshopper Sparrow’s voice; 
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in appearance my records are like the Chippy’s song, but 
this Warbler’s notes are brief and the rendering is typically 
staccato. The Chippy strings his notes together. 
Blue-winged The Blue-winged or Blue-winged Yellow 
Warbler =~ Warbler is a southern species which does 
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L.4.80 inches 2Ot occur (except very rarely indeed in cen- 
May sth tral New York) north of the lower Hudson 
Valley and southern Connecticut. The bird is distinctly 
yellow with an olive back, gray wings, and a black bar 
from the bill to a point back of the eye; the crown and 
under parts bright yellow, wings and tail blue-gray, the 
wings with two distinct white bars, the outer three tail 
feathers with white patches on their inner webs. Nest on 
the ground well-hidden beneath small shrubs or beside 
bunches of weeds, built of dry bark and leaves, lined with 
fine shreds of bark and other soft material. Egg, white 
speckled with umber brown, cinnamon brown and laven- 
der usually in a wreath at the larger end. The species 
breeds from southeastern Minnesota to Connecticut south 
to Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. 
The song of the Blue-winged Warbler is very similar to 
that of the Golden-wing, in tonal effect, but the similarity 
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