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ternally with bluish-gray, the extreme outer ones with white ; the secondaries edged 

 with olivaceous ; two bands on the wing and the edges of the tertials white ; the 

 under parts are whitish with a tinge of buff; the chin, throat, forepart of breast, and 

 the sides, chestnut-brown, lighter than the crown; two outer tail feathers with a 

 patch of white on the inner web near the end; the others edged internally with 

 the same. 



Female with the upper parts olive, streaked throughout with black, and an oc- 

 casional tinge of chestnut on the crown ; lower parts with traces of chestnut, but 

 no stripes. 



Length of male, five inches ; wing, three and five one-hundredths inches ; tail, 

 1 \vo and forty one-hundredths inches. 



The Bay-breasted Warbler is, in most localities of New 

 England, not common, in some quite rare. In the eastern 

 localities of Massachusetts it is very seldom met with. 

 Allen mentions instances when specimens could be obtained 

 by the " bushel-basket full ; " but I think that generally it is 

 rarely seen. Mr. Tripp, in the Am. Naturalist, says of this 

 species : " It is not quite so active as the other warblers, and 

 keeps more on the lower boughs, seldom ascending to the 

 tops of the trees. The young are totally different in their 

 colors from the adults, and so closely resemble the young 

 of the Black-polled Warbler that it is often very difficult to 

 distinguish them apart." It is seen in New England only 

 in the migrations. 



DENDEOICA HHUS. 

 The Pine-creeping Warbler. 



Sylvia pinus, Wilson. Am. Orn., III. (1811) 25. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 387 

 Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 232. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive-green, the feathers of the crown with 

 rather darker shafts ; under parts generally, except the middle of the belly behind, 

 and under tail coverts (which are white), bright gamboge-yellow, with obsolete 

 streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body ; sides of head and neck olive- 

 green like the back, with a broad superciliary stripe ; the eyelids and a spot beneath 

 the eye very obscurely yellow; wings and tail brown; the feathers edged with dirty 

 white, and two bands of the same across the coverts ; inner web of the first tail 

 feather with nearly the terminal half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, 

 dull inconspicuous white. 



Length, five and fifty one-hundredths inches ; wing, three inches ; tail, two and 

 forty one-hundredths inches. 



