168 BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
materials are not placed in the usual manner, circularly, b it shelving 
downwards on all sides from the top; the mouth being wide, the bot- 
tom very narrow, filled with leaves, and the eggs or young occupying 
the middle.. The female lays five eggs, pure white, with a few very 
faint dots of reddish near the great end; the young appear the first 
week in June. Iam not certain whether they raise a second brood in 
the same season. ; 
I have met with several of these nests, always in a retired, though 
open, part of the woods, and very similar.to each other. 
The first specimen of this bird taken notice of by European writers 
was transmitted, with many others, by Mr. William Bartram to Mr. 
Edwards, by whom it was drawn and etched in the 277th plate of his 
Ornithology. In his remarks on.this bird, he seems at a loss to deter- 
mine whether it is not the Pine Creeper of Catesby ;* a difficulty 
occasioned by the very imperfect coloring and figure of Catesby’s’ 
bird. The Pine Creeper, however, is a much larger bird; is of a dark 
yellow olive above, and orange yellow below; has all the habits of a 
Creéper, alighting on the trunks of the pine-trees, running nimbly 
round them, and, according to Mr. Abbot, builds a pensile nest. I 
observed thousands of them in the pine woods of Carolina and Georgia, 
where they are resident, but have never met with them in any-part of 
Pennsylvania.. 3 
This species is five inches and a half long, and seven and a half 
broad; hind head, and whole back, a rich green olive; crown and 
front, orange yellow; whole lower parts, yellow, except the vent- 
feathers, which are white ; bill, black above, lighter below ; lores, black ; 
the form of the bill approximates a little to that of the Finch; wings 
and tail, deep brown, broadly edged with pale slate, which makes them 
appear wholly of that tint, except at the tips; first and second row 
of coverts, tipped with white slightly stained with yellow; the three 
exterior tail-feathers have their inner vanes nearly all white; legs, pale 
bluish; feet, dirty yellow; the two midgle tail-feathers are pale slate. 
The female differs very little in color from the male. 
This species very much resembles the Prothonotary Warbler of 
Pennant and Buffon; the only difference I can perceive, on comparing 
specimens of each, is, that the yellow of the Prothonotary is more of 
an orange tint, ard the bird somewhat larger. 
* Caressy, Car. vol. i. pl. 61. 
