446 WOOD WARBLERS 



eye-ring yellow; underparts greenish yellow, obscurely streaked with dusky 

 on the breast. Im. Similar, but without orange-rufous in the crown; 

 upperparts more ashy; underparts duller; eye-ring white. L., 5*00; W., 2'50; 

 T., 1'95; B., from N., '31. 



Range. Cen. N. Am. Breeds in lower Hudsonian and Canadian zones 

 from Kowak River, Alaska, se. to cen. Keewatin and Man., and s. locally 

 in the Rocky Mts. to N. M.; winters in the Gulf and S. Atlantic States to 

 S. C., and s. through Mex. to Mt. Orizaba; rare in migration along the 

 Atlantic slope from New Hampshire southward. 



Washington, casual T. V., two records, Oct. Ossining, A. V. Cam- 

 bridge, rare T. V., in fall, Oct. 5-Nov. 15. N. Ohio, rare T. V., Apl. 27- 

 May 21. Glen Ellyn, not common T. V., May 1-21; July 28-Oct. 7. SE. 

 Minn., common T. V., Apl. 25- ; Aug. 18-Oct. 16. 



Nest, of leaves and fine grasses, on or near the ground. Eggs, 4-5, white, 

 with specks or spots of cinnamon-brown or rufous, more numerous at the 

 larger end, "63 x '49. Date, St. John's, N. B., June 9 (Thayer Coll.). 



Orange-crowned Warblers are rare in the Atlantic States north of 

 South Carolina. In Florida, where they are common in the winter, they 

 evidently prefer the densely foliaged live and water oaks. Their sharp 

 chip is sufficiently characteristic to be recognized after one has become 

 thoroughly familiar with it. Their song, which I have never heard, is 

 described by Colonel Goss as consisting of "a few sweet trills uttered in a 

 spirited manner, and abruptly ending on a rising scale." 



647. Vermivora peregrina (Wils.). TENNESSEE WARBLER. (Fig. 

 70a.) Ad. <?. Top and sides of the head bluish gray, sharply defined from 

 the bright olive-green back and rump; wings and tail edged with olive- 

 green; no white wing-bars; inner margin of inner vane of outer tail-feathers 

 generally white at the tip; underparts white, sometimes tinged with yellow. 

 Ad. 9. Similar, but crown tinged with greenish and underparts washed 

 with yellowish. Im. Upperparts uniform olive-green; underparts washed 

 with yellowish; under tail-coverts white. L., 5'00; W., 2'63; T., 1'69; 

 B. from N., "32. 



Remarks. The adults of this and the two preceding species may be dis- 

 tinguished with ease; immature birds, however, are frequently confused. 

 The Nashville is distinctly yellow on the breast and under tail-coverts; the 

 Orange-crowned is pale greenish yellow, with dusky streaks and yellow 

 under tail-coverts; the Tennessee is pale greenish yellow, without streaks, and 

 with the under tail-coverts white. 



Range. E. N. Am. Breeds in Canadian zone from upper Yukon Valley, 

 s. Mackenzie, cen. Keewatin, s. Ungava, and Anticosti Is. s. to s. B. C., s. 

 Alberta, Man., n. Minn., Ont., N. Y. (Adirondacks), n. Maine, and N. H.; 

 winters from Oaxaca to Venezuela; in migration occurs mainly in the Miss. 

 Valley, rare on the Atlantic slope; occasional in Fla. and Cuba. 



Washington, T. V., rare in May; occasionally common, Aug. 31-Nov. 

 30. Ossining, rare T. V., May 22-27; Aug. 22-Oct. 2. Cambridge, rare T. 

 V., May 15-25; Sept. N. Ohio, common T. V., May 4-25; Sept. 10-Oct. 10. 

 Glen Ellyn, common T. V., Apl. 30-June 6; July 29-Oct. 9. SE. Minn., 

 common T. V., Apl. 30- ; Sept. 30- . 



Nest, of fine hempen fibers, grasses, and moss, lined with hair, in low 

 bushes near the ground. Eggs, pearly white, with a circle of brown and pur- 

 p^sh spots about the larger end, "60 x *50 (B., B., and R.). Date, S. Lewis- 

 ton, Maine, June 4. 



"The Tennessee is easily discovered and identified by its peculiar 

 song a twittering, semi-trilled, rather prolonged utterance of three 

 parts, not very unlike the weaker and buzzier strains of the American 



