GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 259 



They raise two broods in the season. This little bird, like 

 many others, will feign lameness, to draw you away from its 

 nest, stretching out his neck, spreading and bending down his 

 tail, until it trails along the branch, and fluttering feebly along, 

 to draw you after him ; sometimes looking back, to see if you 

 are following him, and returning back to repeat the same 

 manoeuvres, in order to attract your attention. The male is 

 most remarkable for this practice. 



The blue-eyed warbler is five inches long and seven broad ; 

 hind head and back, greenish yellow ; crown, front, and whole 

 lower parts, rich golden yellow; breast and sides, streaked 

 laterally with dark red ; wings and tail, deep brown, except 

 the edges of the former, and the inner vanes of the latter, 

 which are yellow ; the tail is also slightly forked ; legs, a 

 pale clay colour ; bill and eyelids, light blue. The female is 

 of a less brilliant yellow, and the streaks of red on the breast 

 are fewer and more obscure. Buffon is mistaken in supposing 

 No. 1. of PI. enl. plate lviii. to be the female of this species. 



GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. {Sylvia chrijsoptera.) 



PLATE XV.-Fig. 5. 



Edw. 299. — Le Figuier aux ailes dories, Buff. v. 311. — Lath. ii. 492. — Arct. Zool. 

 403, No. 295, lb. No. 296.— Motacilla chrysoptera, Turt. Syst. i. 597.— Mot. 

 flavifrons, Yellow-fronted Warbler, Id. 601. — Parus alis aureis, Bartram, p. 

 292.— PeaWs Museum, No. 7010. 



VEBMIVOBA CHBYSOPTEBA.—Swainson. 



Sylvia chrysoptera, Bonap. Synop. p„ 87. 



This is another spring passenger through the United States 

 to the north. This bird, as well as fig. 4, from the particular 

 form of its bill, ought rather to be separated from the 

 warblers ; or, along with several others of the same kind, 

 might be arranged as a subgenera, or particular family of 

 that tribe, which might with propriety be called worm-eaters, 



