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BiHDS OF XoRTH CAROLINA 



277. Vermivora pinus {Linn.). Blue-wixked Warbler. 



Description: Ad. male. — Crown and pntire underparts bright yoUow, a hhick line through tlie 

 eye; baclv and rump liright ohvi'-grcrn; wings and tail bluish gray; greater and middle wing- 

 coverts tipped witli white (ir yellowisli white; outer three tail-feathers witli large white patches 

 on their inner webs, fourth feather with a much smaller pateh. Ad. Jciiuilv. — Similar, but vellow 

 on the head eontini'd to the forehead; underparts duller. L., 4.80; \V., 2.40; T., 1.80; h. from 

 N., .:«. (Chap., Hirih of E. X . A.) 



Range. — Ea.stcrn United States in summer, but mainly west of the AUeghanie.s, except north 

 of latitude 40'. Winters in Me.xieo and Central .\meriea. 



Raiir/e in Xoiih Carolina. — So far, only known a.s a rare transient at Raleigh and a rare sunun<>r 

 visitor in Buncombe County. 



Fig. 



BUK WINGED WARBI.ER. 



The Blue-winged Warlilcr :ii)i)ears to be partial to upland avooiIs. in or near 

 which it l)uilds its nest on the ground or only a few inches above it. The; eggs are 

 four or five in numl^er, antl are white in ground-color, speckleil faintlj- and spar- 

 ingly with brown. Size .65 X .51. 



Wo have very few records of this species in the State, and outside of Raleigh 

 it has been recorded only from Buncombe Countj', where Cairns called it an un- 

 common summer visitor, adding that it bred in that region; Pearson found two 

 males at Montreat, Buncombe Coimty, in July, 190:5. At Raleigh it has been taken 

 on JNlay 6, 1907, and April 30. 191."). in spring, and on various dates from August 

 20 to September 4 in the fall, having been taken by H. H. and C. S. Brimley and 

 Bruner. Only two of the specimens secured were females, and thes(> had the wing- 

 bars tinged with yellow, ami not pure white. All the Raleigh specimens were found 

 in woods of mixed pine and oak. 



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278. Vermivora chrysoptera (Linn.). Golden-winged Warbler. 



Description. — .\shy gray above; forehead, crown, and wing-pateh bright yellow; throat and 

 loral stri])e and ear-coverts, black in adult males, deej) gr.ay or dusky olive in females. Cheeks, 

 above and below the black, and lower i)arts, white. L., .'5. 10; W., 2.4.i; T., 1.9.5. 



Range. — -I^asterii North .Vinerica, breeding from North Carolina (in the mountains) north- 

 ward. Wintering in West Indies, ^Iexieo, etc. 



Range in Sorlh Carolina. — So far, known as a transient at Raleigh and a summer visitor in the 

 mountains. 



The CJoldcn-winged Warbler, easily known from our other species by the black 

 throat, ashy u])i)erparts, and yellow wing-])atch, has been taken at Raleigh only on 

 May 7 in 1889, the same date, 1891, and on August 26, 1886, and August 30, 1893. 

 In the momttains, however, it ajijiears to be more common, arriving api)arently 



