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BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
some resemblance, viz., Motacilla mitrata, or Mitred Warbler, and M. 
■ eueullata, or Hooded Warbler, botb birds of the United States, or more 
properly a single bird ; for they are the same species twice described, 
namely, the Hooded Warbler. The difference, however, between that 
and the present is so striking, as to determine this at once to be a very 
distinct species. The singular appearance of the head, neck and breast, 
suggested the name. 
The Mourning Warbler is five inches long, and seven in extent ; the 
whole back, wings and tail, are of a deep greenish olive, the tips of the 
wings and the centre of the tail feathers excepted, which are brownish ; 
the whole head is of a dull slate color ; the breast is ornamented with a 
singular crescent of alternate transverse lines of pure glossy white, and 
very deep black ; all the rest of the lower parts are of a brilliant yellow ; 
the tail is rounded at the end ; legs and feet a pale flesh color ; bill deep 
brownish black above, lighter below ; eye hazel. 
Species XI. SYLVIA SOLITAEIA. 
BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
[Plate XV. Fig. 4.] 
Parus aureus alis ceeruleis, Bartram, p. 292. — Edit. pi. 277, upper figure, — 
Pine Warbler, Arct. Zool. p. 412, No. 318. 
Tins bird has been mistaken for the Pine Creeper of Catesby. It is 
a very different species. It comes to us early in May from the south ; 
haunts thickets and shrubberies, searching the branches for insects ; is 
fond of visiting gardens, orchards and willow trees; of gleaning among 
blossoms, and currant bushes ; and is frequently found in very seques- 
tered woods, where it generally builds its nest. This is fixed in a thick 
bunch or tussock of long grass, sometimes sheltered by a briar bush. 
It is built in the form of an inverted cone, or funnel, the bottom thickly 
bedded with dry beech leaves, the sides formed of the dry bark of 
strong weeds, lined within with fine dry grass. These materials are not 
placed in the usual manner circularly, but shelving downwards on all sides 
from the top ; the mouth being wide, the bottom very narrow, filled 
with leaves, and the eggs or young occupying the 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. 
