92 NASHVILLE WARBLEE. 



Song. I have never heard the song, but it is said to con- 

 sist of a low, sweet thrill, ending with a lisping note. In win- 

 ter it utters a sharp chirp. 



Migration akd Breeding Range, Breeds mostly north 

 of the United States, as far as Alaska but also southward 

 along the mountains to New Mexico. During migrations it 

 is found rarely in New England. It has been obtained in 

 Massachusetts on four occasions, once at Springfield in May, 

 1863, once at Concord in October, 1876, once at Belmont in 

 the autumn of 1886 and rather singularly, at Lynn, on January 

 I, 1876. I shot a single specimen at Williamsport, Pennsylva- 

 nia, on May 15, 1876. The farthest north that I have found 

 it in autumn was at New River North Carolina, where a female, 

 now in my collection, was obtained on November 11, 1900. 

 It occurs in winter in Florida from Jacksonville to Miami, but 

 more frequently in the interior than on the coast. It also win- 

 ters in Eastern and Central Mexico. 



KASHVILLE WARBLER. 



Helniinthophila rubricapilla. 



Plate IX, Fig. 3, male; Fig. 4, female. 



Size, 4.55 to 5.30. Greenish above; head, bluish, with a 

 partly concealed patch of chestnut; beneath yellow. Rather 

 common in summer all over New England. 



Advlt Male. Above, greenish-oliye, brightest on rump; head and 

 hind neck, bluish-gray, with crown, excepting tips of feathers, chestnut. 

 Beneath, yellow, abdomen white. Ring around eye, white. 



Ai>ult Female. Similar to male but duller above and below, while 

 there is less chestnut on the crown. 



YovNG. Have the head and back brownish instead of ashy; there is 

 a brownish suffusion over the back: the yellow beneath is quite pale, with 

 an ashy suffusion on the throat, and the head lacks the chestnut crown. 



Dimension. Length, 4. 75, stretch, 7.50; wing, 2.25; tail, i,7o; lill, 

 40; tasus, .60. 



