152 BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



Hab. Eastern United States and Canada, breeding from higher mountains of Middle 

 States and New England northward; straggling ocoasionally to Greenland or even to 

 Eur pe (Heligoland) ; winters in Cuba and Middle America, south to Panama. 



"Sp. Chae. Male. Upper'parts. exclusive of wing and tail, clear yellow olive-green, 

 the feathers of the back with hidden streaks of black. Forehead and sides of head and 

 neck, including a superciliary stripe, bright yellow. A dusky olive line from the bill, 

 through the eye. and another below it. Chin, throat, and forepart of the breast, extend- 

 ing some distance along on the sides, continuous black; rest of under parts white, tinged 

 with yellow on the breast and flanks. Wings and tail feathers dark brown, edged with 

 bluish gray; two white bands on the wing; the greater part of the three outer tail- 

 feathers white. Female similar, but duller; the throat yellow; the black of breast much 

 concealed by white edges; the sides streaked with black. Length, 5 inches; wing, 2.58; 

 tail. 2.30. 



"The autumnal male has the black of throat and breast obscured 

 by wliitish tips. Females are yellowish white beneath, tinged with 

 grayish towards the tail." {Hist N. Am. B.) 



"First plumage. Male. Eemigesand reetrices as in adult; greater .and median wing- 

 coverts just tipped with soiled white, forming two very narrow, indistinct wing-bands. 

 Rest of upper parts dark slaty-brown, each feather of the back edged with bright green- 

 ish. Superciliary stripes (just meeting in a narrow line on the forehead), eyelids, maxil- 

 lary line, and chin, bright yellow. Sides of head dark slate; under parts soiled white, 

 each feather on the breast and sides with a terminal spot of black; on the throat and 

 jugulum. these spots become largo blotches of dark slate, the feathers being just tipped 

 and edged with light yellow. (From a specimen in my collection shot at Cambridge, 

 Mass, July 30,1875.) Like most of the previously described young Warblers, this bird has 

 a narrow central line of yellow feathers extending down the throat and jugulum to the 

 breast." (Bkewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Apr. 1878,57.) 



Little need be said of this bird further than that it is one of the 

 army of migrants passing hurriedly through in spring to its breed- 

 ing grounds in the northern coniferous forests and in fall on the 

 way to its tropical winter home. It is a beautiful bird, one of the 

 most elegant of its family, and is at times extremely abundant. 



Dendroica vigorsii (Aud.) 



PINE WARBLEB. 



Popular synonym. Pine Creeping Warbler. 



Sylvia plnus WrLS. Am. Orn. iii. 1811, 25. pi. 19. fig. 4.— Nutt. Man. 1.18.'!2..'!S7.— Aud. Orn. 

 Biog. ii,1834,232,pl. 111. 

 Sylvicola pinus Jard.— Aud. Synop. 1839,54; B. Am. 11,1841,37, pi. 82. 

 Dendroica pinus Baibd, B. N. Am. 1858,277: Cat. N. Am. B. 1859. No. 198; Review, 1865, 



190.— B. B. & B. Hist. N. Am. B. 1.1874. 268, pi. 13, tig. 6. 

 Dendrmca pinus McIlwraith. Proo. Essex. Inst, v, 1866. 86.— CouES, Key, 1872, 104 ; Check 

 Li8t,lS73,No. 91; 2d ed. 18S2,No. 134; B. N. W. 1874, 69; B. Col. Yal. 1878, 251.— RiDGW. 

 Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. Ul. 

 Sylvia vioorsii Aud. Orn. Biog. 1,1832,15.3. pi. 30. 

 Vireo vigorsii Nutt. Man. i. 1832,313. 

 Dtiidroica vigorsii Stejn. Auk. ii. Oct. 1885,343. 



