AMERICAN WARBLERS. , 77 



A: wiii^ bands and tail spots i)rcsent. 



GOLDEX-WIXGED WAKBLEK. 



Iioliuiutiiropliila oIirys<)j)tera. 



Pkte VII, Fig. 3, male; Fig. 4, female. 



Size, 5.00 to S-Z^' Bluish above; white beneath; throat 

 aiid patch on side of head black. Wing bands, yellow; tail 

 spots, white. Locally common in summer in New England 

 from Massachusetts southward. 



Adui.t ISIai^e. Above bluish ash, with'the top of head and broad band on 

 Ming, lemon yeilow. Lower surface and line over eye ashy white, slightly tinged 

 M'ith bluish ash on ^des and flanks. Patch on sides of head and throat, bhick. 



Adult Female. Generally similar, but the Mack markings are replaced 

 by dusky, the upp^r parts axe tinged with greenish, and the lower with yellow- 

 ish, 



Young. Qiiite similar to the female, but males have the dark markings 

 blackish. 



Nestlings. Pale golden ashy tliroughout, lighter on abdomen. Tips of 

 two rows of wing coverts, golden, forming two win^ bars. One specimen, ap- 

 parently a female, has the wing bars narrower.. Tail, undeveloped. Swollen 

 portion of gape, yellow. This description was taken from living specimens, see 

 further account under Breeding Habits. 



DiMEXSioxs. Length, 5 10; stretch, 7.90; wing, 2.50; tail, 1.85 ; bill, 

 ,50 ; tarsus, .70. 



Comparisons. Readily distinguished in ail stages by the decidedly golden 

 wing bars and black or dusky throat. 



Nests and Eggs. Nests, placed on the ground, composed of dried leaves, 

 grape vine baxk etc., lined with fine grass and sonietimes horse hair. Eggs, four; 

 oval, white, spotted and blotched everywhere, but rather more thickly on the large 

 •end, with reddish-brown and lilac. Dimensions, 55 by ,66. 



Gexeeal Habits. The Golden-wmged Warblers are 

 rather common in eastern Massachusetts during the spring- 

 migration, and locally common all summer. They frequent 

 low grow^ths of scrub oaks, birches, poplars, etc. The}^ are, 

 however, not found in all such growths, but are of local dis- 

 tribution. In this vicinity they are found on the hilh^ por- 

 tions of West Xew ton aiid Xewtonville, and southward to 



