178 WARBLER. 



231.— PINE WARBLER. 



Sylvia Pinus, Ind. Orn. ii. 537. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 44. 

 Certhia Pinus, Lin. i. 187. Gm. Lin. i. 470. 



Sylvia solitaria, Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 15. f. 4. 

 Parus Americanus, Bris. iii. 576. Id. 8vo. i. 471. 

 Grimpereau de Pin, Ois. Dor. 2. 

 Le Figuier des Sapins, Buf. v. 29G. 



Pine Creeper, Edw. pi. 277. Bartr. Tr. 287. Cat. Car. i. pi. 46 ? 

 Pine Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 483. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 318. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 19. 

 f. 4. Shaw's Zool. x. 737. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill brown ; head, 

 neck behind, back, and rump, olive; through the eye a black streak; 

 throat, neck, and breast yellow ; belly and vent white ; upper wing 

 coverts brown, marked at the ends with a spot of white, forming two 

 bars on the wings ; quills brown ; tail a trifle forked, brown ; the 

 outer webs of the outer feathers white ; legs brown. 



In the male the two outer tail feathers have the inner webs mostly 

 white, except near the tip ; the second much less, having more the 

 appearance of along oval spot; but both brown at the end. We 

 have seen some males without the streaks through the eye ; such 

 probably are young birds. 



The female has the colours more dull, but without the black 

 streak through the eye ; and the bands across the wings only dusky 

 white. This is common about Carolina, in summer, but many remain 

 there throughout the winter, when they are now and then seen among 

 the pine and other trees, in the manner of the Creeper, in search of 

 insects ; first seen in Pennsylvania in April, and departs south in 

 autumn ; said also to feed on the buds of trees ; associate in flocks 

 of twenty or more ; frequent the deep woods, and often seen on the 

 lofty boughs, hanging with the head downwards like the Titmouse; 

 the nest is suspended from the horizontal forks of a branch, formed 



