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671. Dendrolca vigorsil (-1 '/'/.). Tine Waubi.kr. (SocFijr. r>;?,6v 



Ad. 6. — L'lunT purl-s briglit olivi'-^'rci-n, ^^c)rlu■tiIm^s waslii'd witli a.sliy ; two 

 whitLsii \viii),'-l)ur8 ; outi-r tail-t'oatliurs witli wliitc })at(.'lics on tlnir iimiT 

 vanes near tlic tip; uiuU-r parts bri^jrlit yi.'llo\v, niori; or less wiunIk'iI witli ashy, 

 turning to wliito on tliu lower belly ami uiuler tail-eoverts; sides sometiines 

 with a few black streaks. AiL 9 . — Similar, but upper parts brow nish olivo- 

 grecn ; uniler parts soiled whitish; breast tinged with yellow. L., .^-.'i-J ; \V., 

 2-81 ; T., -l-lo; H. from N., -JiS. 



Range. — Eastern North America; breeds from Ilayti (?), the Bahamas, 

 and Florida north to Manitoba and Maine; winters from southern Illinois and 

 Nortli Carolina southward. 



Washington, (piite unconunon 8. li., Meh. '25 to Oct. 25; abundant in full. 

 Sing Sing, casual. Cambridge, common S. K., Apl. 10 to Oct. 20. 



^V<',v^, of strips of bark, leaves, plant fibers, etc., in pines or cellars, thirty 

 to tifty feet up. /i';/;/*, four to five, white or grayish while, with numerous 

 distinct and ob-scure cinnamon-brown to und)er nuirkings, chietly in u wreatli 

 or buml at the larger end, -70 x ■52. 



True to its name, the Pine Warbler is rarely found outside of pine 

 wood.s. In the .south, wlierc pineries may exteiul over half a State, it 

 is an abtindaiit and generally distributed bird; in the more northern 

 part of its range it is, from force of circ^umstanccs, a local species, 

 occurring only with the pines. 



In the winter it is fouml in small flocks, which may contain a few 

 Myrtle or I'alm Warblers, and at this season it lives on or near the 

 ground. In the summer it is more arl)oreal. Its habit of clinging to 

 the trunk of a tree, or hopping along a limb while searching for insects 

 in crevices in the bark, lias given it the misnomer of I'iiie Creeping 

 Warbler. 



Its song is a clear, sweet trill. Southern birds, in my experience, 

 have more musical voices, and their notes suggest those of the Field 

 Sparrow, while the song of northern binls has more the (pinlity of tlie 

 Chipping Sparrow's. 



67S< Dendroica palmarum {ilnuL). Pm.m WAiiin.KK; Kkd-i'oi.t, 

 Wai{i»m;i{. .((/.-Crown chestnut; back olive grayish brown, indistinctly 

 streaked; rump olivc-grccii ; no wing-bars; tail black, the outer feathers with 

 white patches on their iinier vanes at the ti]is ; a ydhnv line over the eye ; 

 throat and breast bright yellow; belly soiled whitish, tinircd with yellow; 

 sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked witl; chcstnut-riifous; under 

 tail-coverts yellow. ,((/, In wititvrnnd Im. — Crown-cap partly concealed by 

 brownish tips to the feathers ajul si>mctinu^s wantitiir; line over the eye and 

 eye-ring irhit<< ; under parts soiled whitish, more or less tinurcd with yellow; 

 breast streaked with dusky. I... rv-'r^ ; W., 2-(;4 ; T., 2-lrt; H. from N., •;!2. 



/i'Hiffc. — Breeds in the inferior of British .\mcrica tiorth of Manitoba und 

 west of Hudson Kay ; migrates southward throuirh the .Mississippi Valley and 

 winters i!i the South Atlantic and (iulf States, West IndieH, and Me.vico; rare 

 in tilc North ,\tlantic Slates. 



