BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. 



south to the mountains of South Carolina, Tennessee, 

 and Missouri. 



The Worm-eating Warbler apparently prefers dense 

 thickets and swampy or wet situations; only here will his 

 song be heard. It is somewhat similar to that of the 

 Chipping Sparrow, a monotonously reiterated note, high- 

 pitched and weak in tone, with more of the insectlike 

 quality of the Grasshopper Sparrow's voice; 



Presto 

 Thrice 



in appearance my records are like the Chippy's song, but 

 this Warbler's notes are brief and the rendering is typically 

 staccato. The Chippy strings his notes together. 



Blue- winged The Blue-winged or Blue-winged Yellow 



arbler Warbler is a southern species which docs 



Vermivora pinus r . . 



L. 4.80 inches no ^ occur (except very rarely indeed in cen- 

 May sth tral New York) north of the lower Hudson 



Valley and southern Connecticut. The bird is distinctly 

 yellow with an olive back, gray wings, and a black bar 

 from the bill to a point back of the eye; the crown and 

 under parts bright yellow, wings and tail blue-gray, the 

 wings with two distinct white bars, the outer three tail 

 feathers with white patches on their inner webs. Nest on 

 the ground well-hidden beneath small shrubs or beside 

 bunches of weeds, built of dry bark and leaves, lined with 

 fine shreds of bark and other soft material. Egg, white 

 speckled with umber brown, cinnamon brown and laven- 

 der usually in a wreath at tha larger end. The species 

 breeds from southeastern Minnesota to Connecticut south 

 to Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. 



The song of the Blue- winged Warbler is very similar to 

 that of the Golden-wing, in tonal effect, but the similarity 



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