152 SYLVICOLID^E I AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



mer, even in most parts of northern New England, 

 that we long lacked authentic advice of its breeding in 

 our limits. Mr. Boardman, however, calls it one of 

 the common Warblers at St. Stephen's, N. B., on the 

 border of Maine, where it breeds. A nest and eggs 

 collected by him have been described as follows : 

 "The nest .was placed on the ground. It is constructed 

 loosely, first of stalks of weeds and grasses, then are 

 laid pieces of moss, caterpillars' silk, fine grasses, and 

 hairs, and the whole is deeply hollowed, and lined 

 with fine roots and pine leaves. Two eggs in the nest 

 are of a delicate white, with a faint roseate tint; they 

 are marked at the larger end with fine spots and 

 blotches of reddish-brown. They are about the size 

 of the eggs of the Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, being 

 .61 by .50 and .62 by .51 of an inch." 



PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 

 DENDRCECA PINUS ( Wils.) Bd. 



Chars. Above, uniform yellow-olive ; below, yellow, shaded on the 

 sides, paler or white on belly and under tail-coverts ; supraciliary 

 line yellow; wing-bars white; tail-blotches large, oblique, con- 

 fined to two outer pairs of feathers. The female and young are 

 similar, but duller colored ; sometimes merely olive-gray above, 

 and dingy white below ; and in such state the species is the most 

 sordid-looking of the Warblers, without any special body-mark- 

 ings, but with a light supraciliary line, wing-bars, and the peculiar 

 tail-spots. It is one of the largest species, 5.50 to nearly 6 inches 

 long; extent, 8.50 or more; wing, 3.00-3.25 ; tail, 2.25 ; bill, 

 0.42 ; tarsus, 0.70. 



This is a large, plain bird, for a member of the 

 Warbler family, with little of the delicacy and orna- 



