AMERICAN AVARBLERS. lO.'i 



Song. The song of the \\ orm-eating Warbler is not 

 very musical, for it consists of a few feebly uttered chirps, not 

 unlike those of the chipping sparrow. This song is given as 

 the bird moves about the low shrubbery in search of food. 

 The alarm note is a low chirp. 



Migration and Breeding Range. Worm-eating War- 

 blers breed throughout eastern United States from southern 

 Connecticut, about Saybrook, Gale's Ferry, and New Haven, 

 southeastern New York, Lower Hudson Valley, and southern 

 Wisconsin, southward. On January 28, 1S72, I shot a speci- 

 men at Blue Spring, Florida, and saw a few others. The 

 same year, a little later, I found it common at Salt Lake, fur- 

 ther up the St Johns River, and even heard the song. On 

 January 29, 1884, 1 saw one at Nassua, Bahamas, another at 

 the same place on February 15 and two more on April 8, one 

 of which I shot. Judging from the dates on a number of skins 

 in the museum of the Institute of Jamaica at Kingston the 

 species must be common on the island all winter. I shot a 

 single specimen on the Island of Cayman Brae on April 5, 1885. 

 It is recorded from Inagua and Cuba also from eastern Mex- 

 ico and Central America. 



Genus. YELLOW-THROAThD WARBLERS. Gk- 



OTHLYPIS. 



Size, variable, from 4.00 to 5.50. Colors, olive above, tbroat 

 and breast yellow, eoii.spiciious black mask on face. No wing bands 

 or tail spots. 



Bill shorter than head and rather stout. Wings, short 

 and rounded. Tail, also rounded. Feet, large. The ster- 

 num of this genus is remarkable, inasmuch as it is produced 

 forward in a degree quite noticeable, the coracoid bones be- 

 ing longer and proportionally stouter than in any other genus 

 in the family, and the keel is low, not being higher than one- 



