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WARBLEES. 



who discovered the breeding grounds, ^^Ch-ch-che-che-a'''' or 

 "C7m, cha-che-chee wicha-a-a''^ .with the terminal "a" pro- 

 longed in both. Rare. 



m. Pine Warblers. Pinacaiitor. 



Large; bills, stout; wings, more or less rounded, reach- 

 ing middle of tail or shorter ; upper and lower tail coverts^ 

 barely reaching middle of tail; wing bands, two, distinct; 

 tail spots, large; greenish-yellow, darker above, lighter be- 

 low; no prominent black markings. Type, Sylvia vigorsii 

 Audubon. Ancestral origin, West Indies. 



1. PINE WAEBLER, P. vigorsii. 5.50; greenish-yel- 

 Fig. 322. low above, yellowish-green 



beneath to the lower part of 

 breast, obscurely streaked on 

 breast with dusky ; remain- 

 ing lower parts dull white, 

 fig. 322. Female, grayish-olive 

 above ; grayish-white beneath 

 slightly tinged with yellow. 

 Breeds in eastern U. S. from 

 northern Fla. north to New 

 Brunswick ; winters from N. 

 C. occasionally as far north as 

 Mass., to Fla. ; north in April ; 

 CC, H, m, 1. 1-3. south in Sep. and Oct. 



Abundant in pitch pine woods, less common elsewhere. 

 Song, a musical trill of about six notes sometimes followed by 

 a short warble, occasionally the warble is given without the 

 trill ; song also heard in Sep. Double brooded, nesting in 

 May and July. 



1*. FLORIDA PINE WARBLER, P. v. floeida. Bill, 

 larger than in 1 and also differs in being decidedly golden 

 yellow above and below, the yellow of the lower surface ex- 

 tending backward along the flanks, thus leaving the abdomen 

 and under tail coverts white. Female but little duller, 



