644 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



305. Vermivora chrysoptera (Linn.). 

 Golden-winged Warbler. 



Helminthophila chrysoptera (Linn.), A. 0. U. Check List, 1895, 

 p. 270. 



Distr.: Eastern United States, north to southern New England, 

 southern Ontario, and southern Manitoba, and west to Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, and Kansas ; breeds from New Jersey and northern Indiana 

 northward; south in winter to Central America and northern South 

 America. 



Adult male: Crown, yellow; rest of upper plumage, bluish gray, 

 more or less tinged with olive green; greater and middle wing coverts, 

 broadly tipped with yellow, forming a conspicuous yellow wing patch; 

 a broad stripe on side of head and a patch on the chin; throat and 

 breast, black; a narrow white superciliary stripe bordering the yellow 

 crown; a white stripe on side of throat; rest of under parts, white, 

 shading to ashy on the sides; three lateral tail feathers with large 

 white spaces on inner webs. 



Adult female: Similar, but duller, yellow of the crown mixed with 

 olive and the black patches on sides of head and throat replaced by 

 dusky gray. 



Length, 5; wing, 2.45; tail, 2; bill, .38. 



The Golden-winged Warbler is a rather common migrant and a 

 more or less common summer resident in parts of Illinois and Wis- 

 consin. Prof. Ridgway states he found it breeding on the southern 

 edge of Calhoun Prairie in Richland County, Illinois, in June, 1885, 

 and that Mr. H. K. Coale found it common and breeding on May 11, 

 1884, in the woods on the Kankakee River in Stark County, Indiana 

 (Orn. of Illinois, 1889, p. 126). 



Messrs. Kumlien and HoUister state (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, 

 p. Ill): "This superb warbler is a regular, though rather rare, mi- 

 grant and a summer resident from the southern part of the state 

 northward. Dr. Hoy took several nests at Racine and T. Kumlien 

 procured fledglings in Jefferson County. Grundtvig found it common, 

 in fact, 'extremely numerous' in Outagamie County in 1882-3. He 

 found it a common summer resident, but did not find a nest. Re- 

 corded by Willard as breeding in Brown County, and by Mr. J. N. 

 Clark from Dunn County. We have found it more common along 

 Lake Michigan than elsewhere and a rather common breeder at Two 

 Rivers in 188 1. It is a regular summer resident in Jefferson County, 

 but as elsewhere is restricted to favorite localities." 



The nest is on or near the ground, composed of leaves, plant fiber, 



