BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
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134 . SYLVIA SOhtTAniA, WILSON. 
BLUE-WINGEl) YELLOW WAllULER. 
WILSON, PLATE XV. FIG. IV. 
bird has been mistaken for the pine creeper of 
It comes to 
. It is a very dili'ci'ent species, 
s)* ®srly iu May from the south ; haunts thickets and 
jj^'ihhcvies, searching tlie hranches for insects ; is fond 
''siting gardens, orchards, and willoiv trees, of 
5 ^ailing junong blossoms, and currant bushes; and is 
'aqiieinij, found in very sequestered woods, where it 
saHeraHy biiiUls its nest. This is fixed iii a thii'k bunch 
/ ^hssock of long grass, soinetimes sheltered by a brier 
It is built m the form of an inverted cone, or 
tl 'ael, the bottom thickly bedded with dry beech leaves, 
sides formed of the dry bark of strong weeds, lined 
"'itli 
These materials are not 
"lu with tine dry grass. 
j^Ced in the usual manner, circularly, but shelving 
^l^' iiwards on all sides from the top ; the mouth being 
the bottom very narrow, filled with leaves, and 
L ^ ^ggs or young occupying the middle. The female 
Vs five pure white, with a few very faint dots of 
near the great end ; the young appear the first 
j ill June. 1 am not certain whether they raise a 
*?['d brood ill the same season, 
f . i'ave met with several of these nests, alw.nys in a 
. '»’ed, thoii'di open part of the woods, and very similar 
'^^ch other. 
jj 'he first specimen of this bird taken notice of by 
|,^^'*pcaii writers was transmitted, with many others, 
y Air William Bartram to Mr Edwards, by whom it 
di'awn and etched in the ‘277th plate of his Omi- 
lo°. his remarks on this bird, he seems at a 
to determine whether it is not the pine creeper of 
®**hy ;* a difficulty occasioned by the very imperfect 
Coring and figure of Cateshy’s bird. The pine creeper, 
Catssbt, Car, vol. i, pi. 61- 
