

SPECIES 11. SYLVIA SOLITARM. 

 BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 



[Plate XV. Fig. 4.] 



Parus aureus alls cceruleis, BARTRAM, p. 292. EDW. pi. 277, up- 

 per figure. Pine Warbler, Arct. Zool. p. 412, JVo. 318.- 

 PE ALE'S Museum, JVo. 7307. 



THIS bird has been mistaken for the Pine Creeper of Catesby. 

 It is a very different species. It comes to us early in May 

 from the south; haunts thickets and shrubberies, searching the 

 branches for insects; is fond of visiting gardens, orchards, and 

 willow trees, of gleaning among blossoms, and currant bushes; 

 and is frequently found in very sequestered woods, where it 

 generally builds its nest. This is fixed in a thick bunch or tus- 

 sock of long grass, sometimes sheltered by a briar bush. It is 

 built in the form of an inverted cone, or funnel, the bottom 

 thickly bedded with dry beech leaves, the sides formed of the 

 dry bark of strong weeds, lined within with fine dry grass. 

 These materials are not placed in the usual manner circularly, 

 but shelving downwards on all sides from the top; the mouth 

 being wide, the bottom very narrow, filled with leaves, and 

 the eggs or young occupying the middle. The female lays 

 five eggs, pure white, with a few very faint dots of reddish 

 near the great end; the young appear the first week in June. 

 I am not certain whether they raise a second brood in the same 

 season. 



I have met with several of these nests, always in a retired 

 though open part of the woods, and very similar to each other. 



The first specimen of this bird taken notice of by European 

 writers was transmitted, with many others, by Mr. William 

 Bartram to Mr. Edwards, by whom it was drawn and etched 



