WARBLERS 491 



The song has been described as "peet, tsweet, tsweet, tsweet, 

 tsweet, tsweet" sounding like a Solitary Sandpiper in the dis- 

 tance, (Warbler Songs, p. 25). Mr. Brewster records the song 

 as "peet, tweet, tweet, tweet." (B. N. O. C. 3, pp. 153-162). 

 The food is reported to consist largely of various species of 

 insects. 



Genus HELMINTHOPHILA Ridgway. 



645. Helminthophila rubricapilla (Wils.). Nashville War- 

 bler. 



Plumage of adults : center of crown with a more or less visible patch of 

 chestnut, the remainder of crown and sides of head bluish gray ; wings and 

 tail olive brown, edged with olive green ; back and rump olive green ; below 

 yellow, paler or whitish on belly. Immatiure plumage : wood brownish above, 

 slightly tinged with olive green and brighter on rump ; sides of head brown- 

 ish ashy ; eye ring very pale buff or whitish ; sides brownish ; below yellowish 

 wood brown, brighter yellow on breast. Wing 2.35 ; tail 1.84. 



Geog. Dist — Eastern North America, breeding from Massachusetts, Con- 

 necticut, northern New Jersey, northern Illinois and northern Nebraska 

 northward to Newfoundland and the Great Slave Lake region ; passing to 

 vdnter quarters through the Central States and eastern Texas ; accidental or 

 casual in Greenland, South Carolina and Florida and seemingly not recorded 

 from Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana. The winter range is in the states 

 of Puebla, Vera Cruz, eastern Oaxaca, Chiapas, Campeche, and rarely south 

 into Guatemala, and north to the Rio Grande River and Texas. (Cooke). 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; common migrant, fairly common sum- 

 mer resident, (Johnson). Aroostook; rather common summer resident, 

 throughout, (Knight). Cumberland; common migrant, (Mead); common 

 summer resident, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 6). Franklin; common summer resi- 

 dent, (Swain). Hancock; common summer resident. Knight). Kennebec; 

 common summer resident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; summer, (Rackliflf). 

 Oxford; breeds, (Nash). Penobscot; common in migrations and also as 

 summer resident, (Knight). Piscataquis; not common, breeds, (Homer). 

 Sagadahoc ; (Spratt). Somerset; quite common summer resident, (Morrell) ; 

 common in northern sections, (Knight). Waldo ; uncommon at Islesboro 

 in 1899, (Howe, J. M. 0. S. 1900. p. 31) ; common summer resident, (Knight). 

 Washington ; common summer resident, (Boardman). 



The Nashville Warblers do not hurry into Maine at the 

 approach of spring weather, but rather prefer to await the 

 time when warm weather is more surely established. They 



