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The four or five white eggs are marked and speckled with reddish brown 

 of varying shades and pattern. They are four fifths of an inch long, and three 

 fifths in their other diameter. 



OVEN BIRD. GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. ADULT MALE. 



This is a bird of the pine woods. Rarely found in other localities. 

 Where such forests are extensive it is often common and frequently abundant. 



These birds are about five and a half inches lono-. 



Pine Warbler. 



Dendroica vigorsii (Aud.). 



The male bird is olive green above, suffused more or less 

 with grayish, particularly in the autumn. The wings are 

 dusky gray with generally lighter edgings of gray, and tinged with olive green. 

 There are two whitish wing bars, and the inner vanes of the two outer tail 

 feathers are white on their terminal half or third. The throat and sides are 

 bright gamboge yellow, which grades into white on the belly and under the 

 tail. There are dark stripes on the sides of the breast and below the eye, 

 Avhich sometimes extend to the flanks and chest. 



The females are similar to the males. Some individuals that I have dis- 

 sected are identical in appearance but they are generally duller and much 

 more brownish gray in tone. 



The birds are resident in the great pine forests of Florida, Georgia, and 

 the Southern States, and migrate as far north as Manitoba and Maine, breed- 

 ing throughout the region indicated in suitable localities. They winter from 

 the Carolinas and Illinois southward. 



