JAN., 1909. BIRDS OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN CORY. 66 1 



Specimen taken by Mr. B. T. Gault at Glen Ellyn, Du Page Co., 

 Illinois, May 7, 1894 (Auk., 1894, p. 258). 



Specimen taken by Mr. J. E. Dickinson in Winnebago Co., Il- 

 linois, May 25, 1894 (L. Jones, Wilson Orn. Chapter, Bull. No. 4, 

 Jan., 1895, p. 14). 



Male shot by Mr. Eliot Blackwelder in Morgan Park, Chicago, 

 May 22, 1899 (Auk, Vol. XVI, 1899, p. 360). 



A specimen shot, wounded, and picked up, but which fluttered 

 away and escaped, Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin (Kumlien and Hoi- 

 lister, Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 133). 



Mr. Norman A. Wood found it breeding in Oscoda County, Michi- 

 gan in July, 1903, and procured a nest and egg and fifteen specimens 

 of old and young birds (Bull. Mich. Orn. Club, Vol. V, 1905, p. 5). 



Mr. Otto Widmann took a male bird of this species near the city 

 limits of St. Louis, on May 8, 1885 (The Auk, Vol. II, 1885, p. 382). 



323. Dendroica vigorsii (Aim.). 



PINE WARBLER. 



Distr.: Eastern United States, from the Plains to the Atlantic 

 coast, north to Manitoba and Ontario; breeding from Florida and 

 the Gulf states northward throughout its range ; winters in the south 

 Atlantic and Gulf states and the Bahama Islands. 



Adult male in summer: Upper parts, yellowish olive green; sides 

 of head and neck, olive green; a somewhat faint and often obscure 

 yellow superciliary stripe; under parts (except belly), yellow; sides 

 of breast, streaked with olive; belly, whitish or grayish white: wing?, 

 fuscous brown, edged with grayish white on inner webs ; wing coverts, 

 tipped with grayish white or ashy, forming two ashy wing bands (not 

 white) ; tail, fuscous brown, the outer feather largely white on inner 

 web, the second with patch of white at end of inner web. 



Adult female in summer: Similar, but the upper parts, grayish 

 olive; throat and breast, pale olive yellow, shading into dull white 

 or brownish white on the belly. 



Immature in fall and winter: Resembles adult female, but upper 

 parts, brownish olive; throat and breast tinged with pale yellow, 

 rest of under parts, grayish white or brownish white, more distinctly 

 brownish on the sides of the body. 



Length, 5.35; wing, 2.90; tail, 2,20; bill, .42. 



The Pine Warbler is a common migrant throughout Illinois and 

 Wisconsin and a summer resident in suitable localities. Its usual 

 song is a delightful little trilling whistle. 



