H. PINUS : BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. Ill 



1874 (Bull. Nuttall Club, ii, Jan., 1877, p. 21). In 

 his Review of Connecticut Birds (1877, p. 13), Mr. 

 Merriam observes : " Mr. Clark tells me he has seen 

 as many as five individuals in a single day. Mr. 

 Thomas Osborne, of New Haven, has a mounted 

 specimen in his cabinet, procured May 17, 1875. 

 Two or three other specimens were shot near here in 

 May, 1875, ^"d ^^'' George Bird Grinnell tells me 

 that he has known of the capture of several in this 

 vicinity." To these instances of the normal northern 

 limit of the species, and the implied though unverified 

 fact of its breeding in Connecticut, I have to add, that 

 I have seen the bird in Massachusetts, at East Hamp- 

 ton ; and that Prof. Verrill has recorded its presence 

 in Maine (Proc. Essex Inst., iii, p. 156). 



BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 

 Helminthophaga PINUS (Z.) Bd. 



Chars. Above, yellowish-olive, becoming slaty-blue on the wings 

 and tail, the crown and all the under parts rich yellow ; a small 

 black stripe through the eye ; wings with two white or yellowish 

 cross-bars ; tail with several large white blotches ; bill and feet 

 dark. Length, 5.00 ; extent, 8.00 ; wing, 2.50 ; tail, 2.25 ; bill, 

 0.45 ; tarsus, 0.67. 



A. rare summer visitant in southern New England, 

 where it is known to breed ; chiefly limited by the 

 Carolinian Fauna, like the foregoing. The bird has 

 long been attributed, and correctly, to Massachusetts, 

 as by Emmons, Cabot, and others. Dr. Brewer denied 

 or ignored the record for some years, but was finally 

 forced to acknowledge its validity (Pr. Bost. Soc, xx, 



