90 OI!AXGE-CROW>-ED WARBLER < 



fer high kind but in the neighborhood of water as a breeding' 

 place. Tlie nesting time begins about the second week in 

 May. 



SoxG. The song of the Blue-winged Warbler differs 

 from that of the Golden- wing in being more forcibly given, 

 and consists of a series of rather wiry but lisping notes emit- 

 ted as a continuous thrill. 



Migration and Breeding Range. Occurs during the 

 breeding season throughout eastern United States, north to 

 about latitude forty one, but no farther east regularly than 

 southern Connecticut, but west to Iowa. It has been taken in 

 Massachusetts on two occasions, once in Dedhamin iS54and 

 once in West Roxbury, on May 17, 187S. It arrives in early 

 May and leaves for the south in early September. Winters 

 in Mexico, Yucatan and Guatemala and casually in the Ba- 

 hamas, ( Abaco ). 



B : wing- bands and tail spots al)seiit. 



ORAXGE-CROWNEI) WAKBLEK* 



Heliiiiiithophila celiita. 



Plate IX, Fig. 1, male ; Fig. 2, female. 



Size 4.75 to 5 30. Above uniform grayish olive with the 

 top of the head having usually a concealed spot of dull orange ; 

 beneath uriiform grayish yellow. A rare migrant, occurring 

 more often in autumn than in spring. 



Adult MaLtB. Grayish olive above, with the base of the feathers of 

 the crown dull orange or ochraceous, this color, however, is usually con- 

 cealed by the tips of the feathers, and more greenish on the rump ; narrow 

 supercilliary stripe, eyelids, and beneath, grayish yellow. 



Adult Female. Very similar, but often, although not always, some- 

 what duller, W'ith less orange on the crown. 



