92 LAND-BIRDS. 



from a nest which I found near Boston average about .68 X 

 .55 of an inch, and are white, marked, chiefly at the great end, 

 with reddish brown. They were taken on the 8th of June and 

 correspond with those found by Mr. Maynard on June 12, 

 1869. 



c. The Golden-winged Warblers have at last been recog- 

 nized as summer residents in Massachusetts of no very great 

 rarity, and are not so largely migrant through this State as 

 was once supposed, for indeed it probably forms nearly their 

 most northern limit. They reach the neighborhood of Boston 

 about the 10th of May, and do not retire to the South until 

 September. During the summer they inhabit woodland, par- 

 ticularly that which is swampy, but soon after their arrival 

 I have several times met them among the trees on cultivated 

 estates, where I have noticed, contrary to the observations of 

 some other persons, that they remain chiefly on or near the 

 ground (not infrequently, however, among the higher 

 branches), and rarely catch insects on the wing. On the 

 contrary, they often recall the Titmice. They have a habit, 

 observable in their relations, of occasionally hopping from 

 the ground to snap an insect from the foliage above. 



d. Their notes are a tsvp, a louder chip, and a sharp alarm- 

 note. They also have a brief and rather unattractive song 

 of four or five peculiar syllables, uttered in a characteristic, 

 rather harsh tone, and resembling dsee-dsee-dsee-dsee. 



BB. LEUCOBEONCHiAiJS. White-tJirooted {Goldev^^inged) 

 Warbler. 



The following is an extract from the " Quarterly Bulletin 

 of the NuttaU Ornithological Club," for April, 1876 (Vol. I, 

 No. 1). 



" Description of a New Species of Helminthophaga ; hy 

 William Brewster. Hdmvnthophaga leucobronchialis. 

 PI. I. 



" Adult male : summer plumage. Crown, bright yellow, 

 slightly tinged with olive on the occiput. Greater and middle 

 wing-coverts, yellow, not so bright as the crown. Superciliary 



