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pillars. They also resort to the ground, and turn over the dried 

 leaves in quest of the same kind of food. They are unsuspecting, 

 and will suffer a person to approach within a few paces. When 

 disturbed, they fly off to some place where withered leaves are 

 seen. They have only a few weak notes, which do not deserve 

 the name of song. Their industry, however, atones for this defect. 

 as they are seen continually moving about, rustling among the 

 leaves, and scarcely ever removing from one situation to another, 

 until after they have made a full inspection of the part in which 

 they have been employed." 



Mr. T. H. Jackson, of Westchester, Pa., describes, in the 

 Am. Naturalist, the nest and eggs of this bird as follows : 



" On Ihe 6th of June, 1869, 1 found a nest of this species 

 containing five eggs. It was placed in a hollow on. the 

 ground much like the nest of the oven bird (/Seiurus auroca- 

 pillus'), and was hidden from sight by the dry leaves that 

 lay thickly around. The nest was composed externally of 

 dead leaves, mostly those of the beech, while the interior 

 was prettily lined with the fine thread-like stalks of the 

 hair-moss (Polytrichium). Altogether it was a very neat 

 structure, and looked to me as if the owner was habitually 

 a ground-nester. The eggs most nearly resemble those of 

 the white-bellied Nuthatch (Sitta Carolinensis), though the 

 markings are fewer and less distinct. So close did the 

 female sit that I captured her without difficulty by placing 

 my hat over the nest." 



HELMINTHOPHAGA, CABANIS. 



Helminthophaga, CABANIS, Mus. Hein. (1850-51) 20. (Type Sylvia rufcapilla.) 

 Bill elongated, conical, very acute ; the outlines very nearly straight, sometimes 

 slightly decurved; no trace of notch at the tip; wings long and pointed; the first 

 quill nearly or quite the longest; tail nearly even or slightly emarginate; short and 

 rather slender; tarsi longer than the middle toe. 



HELMINTHOPHAGA PINUS. Baird. 

 The Blue-winged Yellow Warbler. 



Certhiapinus, Linnseus. Syst. Nat, I. (1766) 187. Gm., I. (1788) 478. 



Bykia solitaria, Wilson. Am. Orn., II. (1810) 109. Aud. Orn. Biog., I. (1832) 102 



Sylvia (Dacnis) solitaria, Nuttall. Man., I. (1832) 410. 



