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America. They breed from Connecticut and Illinois north to the Fur 

 Countries, and winter in Central America. 



NASHVILLE WARBLER. 



The parti-colored group of these sharp-billed Warblers includes the 

 Golden-winged, Lawrence's, Brewster's, Blue-winged Yellow, and Bachman's 

 Warblers. 



Warbler ^ e Golden-winged Warbler is found during the 



Heiminthophiia chrysoptera migrations throughout the Eastern United States, north 

 as far as Minnesota and Michigan, Ontario and Vermont. 

 It breeds from Northern New Jersey and Indiana northward, and south on 

 the Alleghanies to South Carolina, wintering in Central and Northern South 

 America. It is a bluish gray bird above, with a golden yellow crown. The 

 side of the face about the eye is black, separated from the conspicuous black 

 throat by a narrow white line. There is a white line above the eye, and two 

 bars on the bluish gray wings overlapping form an area of golden yellow like 

 the crown. The breast, belly, and feathers below the tail are white % and the 

 sides and flanks are grayish. This general pattern obtains in the female, but 

 the black of the face and throat becomes gray, and the yellow where it occurs 

 is duller. 



The nest is built on the ground, of an outer layer of large dead leaves 

 and bark, lined with finer material. The location generally chosen is the edge 



