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and occasionally is ornamented on the exterior with bits of cottony sub- 

 stances and spiders' cells. The eggs are commonly 4 in number with a 

 creamy or grayish white ground color more or less heavily marked with 

 specks and blotches of various shades of brown, purplish and lilac, usually 

 forming a well-defined wreath. The average size is .65 by .51 inches. 

 Nesting dates for western New York vary from May 26 to June 20, the 

 average date being June 5. Adirondack nests usually have fresh eggs by 

 the 10th of June. 



Dendroica vigorsi (Audubon) 

 Pine Warbler 



Plate 95 



Sylvia vigorsii Audubon. Birds Amer. 1828. (folio) r, pi. 30 

 Sylvicola pinus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 101, fig. 120 

 Dendroica vigorsi A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 318. No. 671 

 vigorsi, to N. A. Vigors, an English naturalist 



Description. Adult male in spring: Upper parts yellowish green; 

 wings margined with grayish; 2 dull whitish wing bars; outer tail feathers 

 with white patches near the end; under parts greenish yellow, obscurely 

 streaked on the breast and sides with dusky; lower belly whitish. Female: 

 Much duller than the male, the under parts being soiled whitish tinged 

 with yellow and the upper parts dusky olive green with grayish or brownish 

 tinge. Young and fall birds: More tinged with brownish. 



Length 5 inches; wing 2.8; tail 2.2; bill .42. 



Distribution. Breeds in eastern North America from New Brunswick 

 and Saskatchewan southward to the Gulf States. In New York this 

 species is rather local in distribution depending upon the presence of pine 

 woods. It is a summer resident throughout the southeastern, eastern, 

 western and central portions of the State, especially on Long Island, but 

 has not been noticed in the Canadian areas of the Catskills and Adiron- 

 dacks. It has been recorded as breeding in Suffolk county by A. H. Howell, 

 Oyster Bay by Theodore Roosevelt, central Long Island by L. S. Foster, 

 Schenectady by James E. Benedict, Rensselaer county by Seymour Wood- 

 ruff, Cohoes by A. F. Park, Oneida lake by Egbert Bagg, Ithaca by Louis 

 Fuertes, Reed and Wright, Hammondsport and Branchpoint by C. F. 



