SVLVirol.lh.K — TIIK WAIMILKUS. IJjy 



yellow; the anal rt'iLrioii paler ; the siilrs tiii;r«'<l with olive. A hr(»a<l y«'llowish-whit»' 

 ring rouini the ••vr ; tin- jorrs y«llo\vi-li ; no sii|M'n'ihary strijM'. The imier «m|^m's <»f' the 

 tiiii-featliers iiiaij^Miitd with iliill wliitr. AV/«ri/»' similar, luit tliillfr; the mi<lrr jKirts piiler, 

 ami with more while; Init little traee of the retl of the crown. Lengtii, -!.*».'» ; wiiip", 'J.4*J ; 

 tail. •-'.0.'). 



IIai!. Eastern Provinee of North AnuTiea; rare in the Mi<Mle Province (Fort Tejofj, 

 Cal., and Kast IIuml«»l<hMoimtain>, Nev.) ; (Jreeiilaml ( IlKiNHAiinr) ; Oaxaea (Fel.niary 

 an<l An^'Ust, S<i..\tkk); Xalapa and (Ninlova (ScLATtu; ; Orizaba (winter. Si'mk mhast). 

 Nol reeonh'd fiom \Ve<t Indies. 



It is an intt'ivstiiio; t'iut, tliat, in tlii.s sjn'cies, we fintl in tlit* yt*lh»w a ti*n- 

 tU'ncy to iKiconiu more and nioi't; rL'slricttMl as we pa.s.s westward. In adult 

 spring' males from the Atlantie States this cnlor inva(h;s the eheeks, and 

 even stains the h)res and eyelids. In two adult sjtrin^' males from Chica^ij 

 it is contined within the maxilhe, the eheeks l>eini4 clear ash, and the loral 

 streak and orbital rinu- juire white ; wlnle in an adult male (autumnal, how- 

 ever) from the Kast Humholdt ^loiintains (Nevada, No. 5.*{,.S."i4, U. S. (Ie«d. 

 K.xpl., 4()th par.) the yelhtw is restrieted to a medial stri]>, even the sides 

 of the throat Kdnu; ashy; the ash invades the baek too, almost to the rump, 

 while in Kastern s})eeimens it extends rio farther haek than the nape. A 

 male (Xo. ln,«ir>G, J. Xantusj from Fort Tejon, Cal, is mueh like the Xe- 

 vada speeimen, though the peeuliar features of the remote Western form are 

 less exa^'j^erated ; it is about intermediate between the other speeimen and 

 the sjHicimens from Chieago. As there is not, unfortunately, a sutlieiently 

 large series of these birds l>efore us, we eannot say to what extent these 

 variations with loiij^itude are eonstant. 



Habits. The X'ashville Warbler appears to be a species of somewhat 

 irregular oeeurrenee ; at one time it will be rather abundant, though never 

 very numerous, ami at another time eomparatively rare. For a long while our 

 older naturalists regarded it as a very rare speeies, and knew nothing as to 

 its habits or distribution. Wilson, who first met with it in IS 11, never found 

 more than three specimens, which he procured near Xashville, Tenn. Audu- 

 bon only met with three or four, and these he obtained in Lmisiana and 

 Kentucky. These and a few others in Titian Peale's collection, supposed to 

 have been obtained in Pennsvlvania, were all he ever saw. Mr. X^uttall at 

 first regarded it as very r.ire, and as a Southern species. In that writer's later 

 edition he speaks of it as a bird having a X'orthern distribution as far as 

 Liibrador. Dr. Kichardson records the occurrence of a single stniuiiler in the 

 fur countrv. So far as known, it occurs as a miurant in all the States 

 east of the Missouri, and is a summer resident north of the 4(>th parallel. 

 It probably breeds in the high ground of Pennsylvania, though this fact is 

 inferred rather than known. It breeds in Connecticut and ^lassachusetts, 

 and in Maine in the vicinity of Calais, being more abundant there than any- 

 where else, as far as has been ascertained. 



Two individuals of this species have been taken in Greenland : one at 

 Godthaab, in 1885 ; and the other at Fiskemesset, August M, 184U. 



