BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
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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 
in the 277th plate of his Ornithology . In his remarks on this 
bird, he seems at a loss to determine whether it is not the 
Pine Creeper of Catesby;* a difficulty occasioned by the 
very imperfect colouring and figure of Catesby’s bird. The 
Pine Creeper, however, is a much larger bird ; is of a dark 
yellow olive above, and orange yellow below ; has all the habits 
of a Creeper, alighting on the trunks of the pine trees, running 
nimbly round them, and, according to Mr Abbot, builds a 
pensile nest. I observed thousands of them in the pine woods 
of Carolina and Georgia, where they are resident, but have 
never met with them in any part of Pennsylvania. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and seven and a 
half broad ; hind head, and whole back, a rich green olive ; 
crown and front, orange yellow ; whole lower parts, yellow, 
except the vent-feathers, which are white ; bill, black above, 
lighter below : lores, black ; the form of the bill approximates 
a little to that of the Finch; wings and tail, deep brown, 
broadly edged with pale slate, which makes them appear 
wholly of that tint, except at the tips ; first and second row of 
coverts, tipt with white slightly stained with yellow ; the three 
exterior tail-feathers have their inner vanes nearly all white ; 
legs, pale bluish; feet, dirty yellow; the two middle tail- 
feathers are pale slate. The female differs very little in 
colour from the male. 
This species very much resembles the Prothonotary Warbler 
* Catesby, Car. vol. i. pi. 61. 
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