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of a northern winter have passed away, and permitted the 
great bird-wave to roll over the resurrected land once more, 
has no right to see, nor the soul to feel the joy of a thing of 
beauty. 
Notwithstanding this bird has been considered too southern 
for the latitude, it is annually a Minnesota visitor, coming in 
sufficient numbers to assure us that it has by no means reached 
the most northern limits of its migration. About the 10th or 
12th of May, it comes with the great bird-throng of the spring, 
and remains in sufficient numbers for about ten days to make 
the collection of several for the cabinet in the course of half a 
day’s hunt, a pretty sure thing to the experienced collector. 
Although no nests have come under my own eye, nor have 
any been reported to me as yet, I confidently believe it breeds 
throughout the State as well as in the British possessions. 
One individual was obtained about the 8d of September, in its 
southern migration, and in mature plumage. Since writing 
the above Mr. Treganowan writes: ‘‘I have the nest and eggs 
of the Blue-winged Warbler, obtained May 22nd, (1877) in Big 
Stone. It was on the ground in a cluster of hazel brush, in the 
borders of a grove of forest trees. The locality was near a 
dwelling, and the nest consisted of strips of bark from dead 
poplars, and was lined with fine grasses quite artistically ad- 
justed and interwoven. There were five white eggs spattered 
with dirty brown, darker colored and more numerous at the 
larger end.” 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Upper parts and cheeks olive-green, brightest on the rump; 
wings, tail and upper coverts in part, bluish-gray; an intensly 
black patch from the blue-black bill to the eye, continued a 
short distance behind it; crown, except behind, and the under 
parts generally rich orange-yellow. Wing with two white bands; 
two outer tail feathers, with most of the inner web, and third. | 
one with a spot at the end, white. 
Length, 4.50; wing, 2.40; tail, 2,10. 
Habitate, eastern United States. 
HELMINTHOPHILA CHRYSOPTERA (L.). (642.) 
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
So far as I have been able to ascertain, this Warbler is not 
by any means common. Indeed I had lived here seventeen 
years before I saw one, and that was collected by Mr. T. S. 
Roberts of this city. Since then few springs have come and gone 
