AMERICAN WARBLERS. S3 



with him in order to show him a Golden-winged Warbler. 

 Here we heard the song of a bird which I then thought was 

 that of a Golden-wing. I called Mr. Brewster's attention to it. 

 He went in pursuit of the bird, and soon came back with it. 

 This proved to be what afterwards became the type of Brews- 

 ter's Warbler. Rather singularly it has been the last of the 

 species taken in Massachusetts, although a specimen has been 

 unearthed that was captured at Hudson a number of years be- 

 fore the type was obtained. 



SoxG. x^s I remembered the song of the warbler taken 

 by Mr. Brewster, I thought it differed a little from that of the 

 Golden-wing. Others who have heard Brewster's Warbler su)/- 

 that the song is somewhat variable, sometimes resembling 

 that of the Golden-wing, sometimes that of the Blue-wing,and 

 at other times being unlike either. 



Breedixg Range. Brewster's Warbler has been found 

 breeding in Connecticut, south-eastern New York, Long Is- 

 land, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia. It has also been taken in Michigan and Louisana. 



LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. 



Helminthophila lawreiioii. 



Plate VIII, lower Fig., male. 



Size, 5.00 to 5.30. Greenish above; yellow below; line 

 till ough eye and throat, black. Wing- bands and tail spots^ 

 white. Uncommon in southern Connecticut. 



Comparisons. Similar in form and somewhat in pattern of coloration, to 

 the Golden-sving, but differs in being greenish above, yellow beneath, and in 

 having the wing bands white, and the black patch on the side of head is confined 

 to a small spot before and behind the eye. 



YouxG. Similar, but the black patch on the throat is broken by narrow 

 yellow edgings to the feathers. 



The exact status of this species and Brewster's Warbler presents a problem 

 which is exceedingly perplexing, and one about which ornithologists have differed 



