BIRDS — SYLVICOLIDAE DENDROICA PINUS. 
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behind and under tail coverts are pure white. The quills are only gradually paler towards the 
inner edge, not rather abruptly white. 
List of specimens. 
Locality. 
S Carlisle, Pa 
Q do 
do 
Q | do 
9 do 
I Cleveland, Ohio.. 
Q Union county, 111. 
8013 J Guatemala 
When collrrtoi. 
May 6, 1845 
May 8, 1843 
Sept. 23, 1842 ... 
May 19, 1843 .... 
May 8, 1843 
Autumn 
May 12 
Whence obtained. 
S. F. Baird-. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Dr. Kirtland. 
R. Kennicott. 
J. Gould 
Length. | Stretch 
of wings. 
5. 25 
8.75 
2. 75 
5. 25 
8.00 
2. 91 
5. 00 
8. 66 
2.75 
5. 08 
8.41 
2.75 
DENDROICA PINUS, Baird. 
Pine Creeping Warbler. 
Sylvia pinus, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 25 ; pi. xix, f. 4. (Not Certhia pinus, L ; Motacilla pinus, Gm. ; Sylvia 
pinus, Lath.)— Bonap. Obs. Wils. 1826, No. 149.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 387.— Aim. Orn. Biog. 
II, 1834, 232; pi. 111. 
Thryothorus pinus, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIV, i, 194. 
Sylvicola pinus, Jard. ed. Wilson, 1832.— Rich. List, 1837.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 54.— Ib. Birds 
Amer. II, 1841,37; pl. 82. 
Rhimamphus pinus, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 311. 
Sylvia vigorsii, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 153 ; pl. 30. (Young ) 
Vireo vigorsii, Ndttall, Man. I, 1832, 318. 
Sp. Ch. — Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive green, the feathers of the crown with rather darker shafts. Under 
parts generally, except the middle of the belly behind, and under tail coverts, (which are white,) bright gamboge yellow, with 
obsolete streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body. Sides of head and neck olive green like the back, with a broad 
superciliary stripe ; the eyelids and a spot beneath the eye very obscurely yellow ; wings and tail brown ; the feathers edged 
with dirty white, and two bands of the same across the coverts. Inner web of the first tail feather with nearly the terminal 
half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, dull inconspicuous white. Length, 5.50 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2.40. (1356.) 
Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri. 
The markings of this species are not very distinct or well defined ; less so, perhaps, than any of 
our warblers, except possibly D. palmarurn. The amount of white on the tail varies somewhat, 
occasionally the entire outer web of the exterior feather and a larger portion of the inner being 
of this color. The female is similar to the male, but of duller plumage. In autumn the colors 
are as in spring, the yellow rather lighter and brighter ; the olive above glossed with reddish 
brown. The yellow of the under parts is sometimes much obscured by pale margins to the 
feathers. The young are brown above, whitish beneath, tinged with brown before. 
This species appears to differ from the Sylvia montana, Wilson, chiefly in the absence of a 
yellow frontlet, in having a greener back, and less distinct streaks beneath ; as also in the white 
anal region. 
