SPECIES 11 . SYLVM SOLITARM. 
BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
[Plate XV.— Fig. 4.] 
Varus aureus alls cceruleis, Bartram, p. 292. — ^vrw.pl. 277, up- 
per figure. — Pine Warbler, .Bret. Zool. p. 412, JSTo. 318.— 
Peale’s Museum, JYo. 7307. 
This 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 sequestered woods, where it 
generally builds its nest. This is fixed in a thick bunch or tus- 
sock 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. 
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 
