THE BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. 121 
vine bark, etc., lined with fine grass. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, faintly and thinly 
speckled with cinnamon-brown or umber. Av. size, .63 x .51 (16. X 13.). 
General Range.—E astern United States from southern New York, southern 
New England and southern Minnesota southward, west to Texas and Nebraska. 
In winter south to Guatemala and Nicaragua. 
Range in Ohio.—Of general distribution in summer throughout the state. 
ALTHO appearing in our latitudes as early as May first, the Blue- 
winged Yellow Warbler seems to bring summer with it. This is partly be- 
cause its bright plumage suggests the fullest measure of sunshine, but more 
because its drowsy, droning song better befits the midsummer hush than it 
does the strife of tongues which marks the May migrations. Swe-c-c-s2¢e-c-c- 
e-e- the bird says, and it is as if the Cicada had spoken. The last syllable 
especially has a vibrant clicking quality like the beating of insect wings. 
Like most warblers this bird makes nice discriminations in the choice 
of its summer home. If one knows exactly what sort of cover to look for 
it is not difficult 
to locate a Blue- 
wing, but one 
might ransack 
a township at 
haphazard and 
find never a 
one Low, 
moist clearings 
which have 
been allowed te 
fill up again 
with spice 
bush, witch-ha- 
zel, and sap- 
lings are favor- 
ee ples, GS= 
pecially if here 
andthere a larg- 
Gr  fiese Imei 
been spared, 
from which the 
singing War- 
bler may ob- § 
tain at will a — Taken near Obertin. Photo by Lynds Jones. 
commanding 
NEST AND EGGS OF BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. 
