i66 THE PINE WARBLER. 



Nesting. — Breeding not yet reported for Ohio. Nest, placed high in 

 pine or cedar trees; composed of bark-strips, leaves, fine grasses, etc., liiied 

 with plant-down, hair and feathers. Bggs, 4 or 5. "The ground color is a bluish 

 white. Scattered over this are subdued tintings of fine deHcate shades of purple, 

 and upon this are distributed dots and blotches of a dark purplish brown, 

 mingled with a few lines almost black" (Brewer). Av. size, .70 x .52 (17.8 x 

 13-2). 



General Range. — Eastern United States west to the Plains, north to Man- 

 itoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick, wintering in the South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States, and the Bahamas. 



Range in Ohio. — Rare or casual during migrations. Probably more common 

 in eastern portion. Thought to breed in the southern part and should be found 

 nesting anywhere in the state in evergreen timber. 



OHIO must seem like a desert to this pine-loving bird, but he is found 

 once in a while either in some tiny oasis like that shown in the cut (which 

 we should call a pine "barren") or else among the orchard and shade trees 

 of a chance resting place. The bird is not certainly known to breed in the 

 state, but Rev. W. F. Henninger, then of Waverly, Ohio, took a young male 

 August 5th, 1898, under circumstances which made it appear probable that 

 the bird had been reared in the irhmediate vicinity. 



The Pine Warbler has some of the near-sighted ways of the Brown 

 Creeper, and like that most prosaic mortal gleans a living from the trunks 

 and larger limbs of trees. In crossing from tree to tree it has a pretty, un- 

 dulating flight. In winter in the southern pineries, where it abounds, it is 

 occasionally found associated in loose flocks which feed upon the ground. 



"Its song," says Chapman, "is a clear sweet trill. Southern birds, in 

 my experience, have more musical voices, and their notes suggest those oi 

 the Field Sparrow, while the song of northern birds has more the quality of 

 the Chipping Sparrow's." 



