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DESCRIPTION. 
Above uniform olive-green; the middle of the back streaked with brownish-red. 
Under parts and sides of the head, including a broad superciliary line from the nos- 
trils to a little behind the eye, bright-yellow, brightest anteriorly; a well-defined 
narrow stripe from the commissure of the mouth through the eye, and another from 
the same point curving gently below it, also a series of streaks on each side of the 
body, extending from the throat to the flanks, black; quills and tail feathers brown, 
edged with white; the terminal half of the inner web of the first and second tail 
feathers white; two yellowish bands on the wings. Female similar, but duller; 
the dorsal streaks indistinct. 
Length, four and eighty-six one-hundredths inches; wing, two and twenty-five 
one-hundredths; tail, two and ten one-hundredths inches. 
This beautiful bird is not very common in any part of 
New England; and it appears to be a rather rare species 
north of Massachusetts, which State seems to be its northern 
breeding limit. It makes its appearance about the third 
week in May, and commences building about the last of 
that month. I have been so fortunate as to find two nests 
in Norfolk County, and have had another nest and eges sent 
me from Belmont, in this State: I have also known of sev- 
eral other nests being found, and judge that the species 
breeds not uncommonly in Massachusetts and the other two 
southern New-England States. These nests were all placed 
in low barberry bushes, in rocky localities. They are ex- 
ceedingly neat structures, the most so of any of our New- 
England Warblers’ nests: they are constructed of various 
soft cottony substances, after the manner of the nest of the 
Yellow Warbler, and are lined with soft feathers and wool. 
The eggs are usually three in number. These are of a beau- 
tiful pearly-white color, with a slight roseate tint, and cov-- 
ered irregularly with small spots of different shades of 
brown and lilac, thickest at the large end. Dimensions of 
three eggs collected in Belmont, Mass.: .64 by .52 inch, .63 
by .52 inch, .60 by .50 inch. The above-described nests 
were invariably placed in the fork of the bush in which 
they were built: the materials were the same, consisting of 
the down from different plants, cotton, wool, and other hke 
substances. I find, on referring to Audubon, Wilson, and 
