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The male looks like the Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, but has a black patch 

 on the side of the face and a black throat like the Golden-wineed Warbler. 



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The female referred to had obscure markings of dusky, taking the place 

 of the throat and cheek markings, otherwise the bird was like a female Blue- 

 winged Yellow Warbler. 



This is a common migrant in the Southeastern United States. It has 

 been secured in the vicinity of New Orleans, and at Charleston, South 



„ , , Carolina, but is best known as a mitrrant in Northwestern 



Warbler Florida in March and April, and at Key West in July and 



Heiminthophiia bachmanii AutTust. But Httlc is kuown as to its breedine habits, or 



of the exact locality where the birds nest and rear their 



young. A single nest was described and attributed to this species from 



St. Simon's Island, Georgia, 30 April, 1854. 



Since writing the above the summer home and breeding habits of Bach- 

 man's Warbler have been discovered and described. The birds are common 

 summer residents in the St. Francis River region of Southeastern Missouri, 

 and Northeastern Arkansas. The nest was found in blackberry bushes, two 

 feet from the ground. It is " composed externally of dried weeds and grass 

 stalks ; internally of fine weeds and grass stalks, lined with black fibres, ap- 

 parently dead threads of the black pendant lichen," common to the region. 

 The eggs were three in number, immaculate white, rather more than three 

 fifths of an inch long and a trifle less than half an inch wide. 



The birds are about four inches and a quarter long. The male has a 

 yellow forehead, and the lower parts are yellow, except a black patch on the 

 breast extending to the lower part of the throat. There is a black area on 

 the fore part of the crown, back of which follows an area of dull blue gray. 

 The back and rump are bright olive green. The tail is dusky gray, the two 

 middle feathers are unmarked, and the other feathers have white patches on 

 their inner webs near the tips. There is an area of yellow on the shoulders. 

 The female is similar to the male above, but lacks the black on the crown, 

 which is grayish, and the yellow on the forehead is often obscure. The under 

 parts are white washed with yellowish on the throat and breast. 



The prevailing colors of the Worm-eating Warbler are dull greenish 

 olive above, except on the head ; the tail and wings are darker and without 



