THE PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 229 
ternally with bluish-gray, the extreme outer ones with white; the secondaries edged 
with olivaceous; two bands on the wing and the edges of the tertials white; the 
under parts are whitish with a tinge of buff; the chin, throat, forepart of breast, and 
the sides, chestnut-brown, lighter than the crown; two outer tail feathers with a 
patch of white on the inner web near the end; the others edged internally with 
the same. 
Female with the upper parts olive, streaked throughout with black, and an oc- 
casional tinge of chestnut on the crown; lower parts with traces of chestnut, but 
no stripes. 
Length of male, five inches; wing, three and five one-hundredths inches; tail, 
two and forty one-hundredths inches. 
The Bay-breasted Warbler is, in most localities of New 
England, not common, in some quite rare. In the eastern 
localities of Massachusetts it is very seldom met with. 
Allen mentions instances when specimens could be obtained 
by the ** bushel-basket full ;” but I think that generally it is 
rarely seen. Mr. Tripp, in the Am. Naturalist, says of this 
species: ‘“ It is not quite so active as the other warblers, and 
keeps more on the lower boughs, seldom ascending to the 
tops of the trees. The young are totally different in their 
colors from the adults, and so closely resemble the young 
of the Black-polled Warbler that it is often very difficult to 
distinguish them apart.’ It is seen in New England only 
in the migrations. 
DENDROICA PINUS. — Baird. 
The Pine-creeping Warbler. 
Sylvia pinus, Wilson. Am. Orn., III. (1811) 25. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 387. 
Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1884) 282. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive-green, the feathers of the crown with 
rather darker shafts; under parts generally, except the middle of the belly behind, 
and under tail coverts (which are white), bright gamboge-yellow, with obsolete 
streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body; sides of head and neck olive- 
green like the back, with a broad superciliary stripe; the eyelids and a spot beneath 
the eye very obscurely yellow; wings and tail brown; the feathers edged with dirty 
white, and two bands of the same across the coverts; inner web of the first tail 
feather with nearly the terminal half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, 
dull inconspicuous white. 
Length, five and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, two and 
forty one-hundredths inches. 
