BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 



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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. I am 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 determine whether it 

 is not the pine creeper of Catesby ; * a difficulty occasioned 

 by the very imperfect colouring 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 creeper, 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 resi- 

 dent, but have never met with them in any part of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



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, tipt 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 middle 

 tail-feathers are pale slate. The female differs very little in 

 colour from the male. 



* Catesby, Car. vol. i. pi. 61. 

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