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BIRDS OF jSToRTH CAROLINA 



situations it builds its nest, often at the foot of some small tree, or by the side of 

 a log. It is constructed of leaves and grasses, and given a lining of finer materials. 

 The eggs are four or five in number and are deposited in April or May. They are 

 white, speckled with hazel or cinnamon rufous, and often also with lilac or lavender 

 gray. Size .70 x .52. 



FIG. 220. BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER. 



The only nest C. S. Brimley ever found at Raleigh was on a sloping hillside, and 

 was tucked in under the pine straw at the base of two small pines standing close 

 together. The same observer also found a nest at Andrews, which was on almost 

 level ground at the end of a prostrate log. Pearson discovered a nest under an 

 exposed root on a wooded hillside, in May, 1896, at Guilford College. It contained 

 three newly hatched young. 



In habits this species resembles a nuthatch rather more than a warbler, as it 

 keeps continually running up and down the trunks or along the limbs of trees in a 

 manner not unlike that of the White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Genus Protonotaria (Baird) 

 273. Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.). PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 



Description. Head, neck, and underparts, except lower tail-coverts, rich orange yellow, 

 lighter on the belly; back olive-green; wings and tail bluish gray; lower tail-coverts white. Female 

 similar, but with the top of head olive-green instead of yellow. Extreme measurements of 17 

 specimens from Wake, Bertie, and Craven counties: L., 5.35^5.75; W., 2.60-3.00; T., 1.65-2.00. 



Range. Mississippi Valley and southeastern States, ranging in the east to southern Virginia. 

 Winters in the West Indies, Central and South America. 



Range in North Carolina. Lower Austral region of State, from Raleigh eastward, in summer. 



