GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER 



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Adult $, Spring. Crown greenish yellow, a white line above eye, cheeks 

 gray; back gray more or less washed with olive-green; tail and wings as in 

 c? but yellow of wing-bars more restricted; throat gray bordered by whitish 

 stripes; middle of belly whitish, sides gray. 



Adult $, Fall Not seen. 



Young $, Fall. Similar to adult $ in Spring but crown greener, back 

 and underparts washed with olive-green, chin whitish. 



Nestling. Dusky olive-green above, below dusky olive; wings and tail as 

 in young in Fall, greater and median wing-coverts olive-green tipped with 

 greenish forming two conspicuous bars. The early development of the plumage 

 of the throat soon distinguishes the sexes. 



General Distribution. Eastern United States; north to New 

 Hampshire and Wisconsin ; west to the Mississippi River. 



Summer Range. The principal summer home is in Michigan, 

 southern Ontario and northern Wisconsin; a few occur east to New 

 York (Penn Yan, May 1872; Buffalo, May 12, 1888), New Hamp- 

 shire (Durham, Hampton Falls, Jaffrey, Manchester and Concord), 

 and the species is not uncommon locally in Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut. It breeds south to northern Illinois, northern Indiana and 

 Ohio, while in the mountains, the breeding range takes a southerly 

 dip from Pennsylvania to northern Georgia, where at an elevation of 

 2,000 to 4,000 feet, the bird is, locally, almost as common as in 

 Michigan. The species has been noted in Manitoba (Winnipeg 

 about May 24, 1887), Iowa (Iowa City, May 17, 1885), and New 

 Mexico (Fort Thorn, April 1854.) 



The southern Mississippi Valley is crossed in migration, but the 

 species is very rare in eastern Texas and occurs only rarely or 

 casually in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; accidental in 

 Mexico and the West Indies. 



Winter Range. Guatemala to Colombia. 



Spring Migration. 



