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and stripe through eye, black. Tail-feathers white-blotched. 
@ with less pure colors than ¢. 
(b). The nest is placed on the ground, in woodland, gener- 
ally near swamps, and is variously lined. Four eggs taken by 
me from a nest found near Boston average about *68X°55 of 
an inch, and are white, marked, chiefly at the great end, with 
reddish-brown. They were taken on the 8th of June and cor- 
respond with those found by Mr. Maynard on June 12th, 1869. 
(c). The Golden-winged Warblers have at last been recog- 
nized as summer-residents in Massachusetts of no very great 
rarity, and are not so largely migrant through this State, as 
was once supposed, for indeed it probably forms nearly their 
most northern limit.- They reach the neighborhood of Boston 
about the 10th of May, and do not retire to the South until 
September. During the summer they inhabit woodland, par- 
ticularly that which is swampy, but ‘soon after their arrival 
{ have several times met them among the trees on cultivated 
estates, where I have noticed, contrary to the observations of 
some other persons, that they remain chiefly on or near the 
ground (not infrequently, however, among the higher branches), 
and rarely catch insects on the wing. On the contrary, they 
often recall the titmice. They lhave a habit, observable in 
their relations, of occasionally hopping from the ground to 
snap an insect from the foliage above. 
(d). Their notes are a tsip, a louder chip, and a sharp alarm- 
note. They also have a brief and rather unattractive song. 
of four or five peculiar syllables, uttered in a characteristic, 
rather harsh tone, and resembling dsee-dsee-dsee-dsee. 
BB. tevcoproncHiaLis. White-throated (Golden-winged) 
Warbler. 
The following is an extract from the “ Quarterly Bulletin of 
the Nuttall Ornithological Club,” for April, 1876 (Vol. 1, No.1). 
+‘ Description of a New Species of Helminthophaga; by William 
“ Brewster. Helminthophaga leucobronchialis. Pl. 1. 
“* Adult male: summer plumage. Crown, bright yellow, 
