244 BIEDS — SYL-VICOLID^. 



Regular spring and fall migrant. Common. The Nashville Warbler 

 is to be found from the first to the twenty-fifth of May in woodland and 

 along the banks of streams, sometimes singly at other times in sn all 

 flocks. Its song is a short warble, more varied and less emphatic than 

 that of other members of this genus. Its note is a sharp chirp, which 

 Wilson compares to the noise made by striking pebbles together. In Sep- 

 tember when on its southern migration it is more common, frequenting 

 weeds in woods and on the borders of streams and swamps. At this time it 

 is much on or near the ground, and often associates with Tennessee War- 

 blerr<, which exceed them in numbers in the fall. It breeds in the lati- 

 tude of Massachusetts and northward. The nest is placed on the ground, 

 composed of moss and grasses. The eggs measure .69 by .50 and are white, 

 thickly marked with purplish brown spots. 



HELMINTHOPHAfiA. CELATA (Say) Bd. 



Oraiige-croTvned Warbler. 



Etlminfhophaga celata, Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 363, 373 ; Reprint, 1861, 5, 

 15 ; Food of Birda, etc , Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 563 ; Reprint, 1875, 3. — Langdon, 

 Cat. Birda of Gin., 1877, 5; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188; 

 Reprint, 22. 



Sylvia celata, Say, Long's Ex. Rocky Mta., 1824, 169. 

 Helmintkophaga celata, Baird, Birds N. A., 1858, 257. 



Above, olive green, rather brightest on the rump, iiever ashy on the head ; below, 

 greenish-yellow, washed with olive on the aides ; crown with a, more or less concealed 

 orangetrown patch (sometimes wanting); eye ring and obscure superciliary line yel- 

 lo A ish. Size of ruficapilla. 



Habitat, North America. Common in the west, r re or irregular in the east. 



Rare spring and fall migrant. J can record but three specimens taken 

 in the State. Mr. R. K. Winslow took a fall specimen in the vicinity of 

 Cleveland, previous to 1861 In May, 1875, 1 took two specimens. I was 

 attracted to the first, which was perched upon the top of a vine-crowned 

 stub, in a woodland thicket bordering. a swamp, by its loud, emphatic, 

 and rather monotonous song, resembling as nearly as I can describe the 

 syllables chichy-tick tick tick-tick. This song was louder and more decidedly 

 emphasized than that of any other member of the genus wiih which I 

 am acquainted. Two or three days after, I took a female, in another 

 locality, near this city. Others were seen in company with this last, but 

 not secured. 



In the State of Illinois they are said by Mr. Ridgway to be regular mi- 

 grants, and further westward they are abundant. The nest and eggs 

 were discovered by Mr. Kennicott, in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake. 

 The nest, like those of all other members of this genus known, is placed 

 on the ground. It is composed of strips of bark, stems and grasses. The 



