GOLDEN-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
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others, will feign lameness, to draw you away from its nest, 
stretching out his neck, spreading and bending down his tail, 
until it trails along the branch, and fluttering feebly along, to 
draw you after him ; sometimes looking back, to see if you are 
following him, and returning back to repeat the same manoeuvres, 
in order to attract your attention. The male is most remark- 
able for this practice. 
The Blue-eyed Warbler is five inches long and seven broad ; 
hind head and back, greenish yellow; crown, front, and whole 
lower parts, rich golden yellow; breast and sides, streaked 
laterally with dark red ; wings and tail, deep brown, except 
the edges of the former, and the inner vanes of the latter, 
which are yellow ; the tail is also slightly forked ; legs, a pale 
clay colour ; bill and eyelids, light blue. The female is of a 
less brilliant yellow, and the streaks of red on the breast are 
fewer and more obscure. Buffon is mistaken in supposing 
No. 1. of PI. enl. plate Iviii. to be the female of this species. 
GOLDEN- WINGED WARBLER. — SYLVIA CHRYSOPTERA. 
Plate XV. Fig. 5. 
JSdw. 299. — Le Figuier aux ailes dorees, Buff. v. 311. — Lath. ii. 492. — Arct. 
Zool. 403. No. 295. Ih. No. 296. — Motacilla chrysoptera, Turt. Syst. i. 597. — 
Mot. flavifrons, Yellow-fronted Warbler, Id. 601. — Parus alis aureis, Bartram, 
p. 292. — Beale's Museum, No. 7010. 
VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia cbrysoptera, Bonap. Synop. p. 87. 
This is another spring passenger through the United States 
to the north. This bird, as well as fig. 4. from the particular 
form of its bill, ought rather to be separated from the Warblers ; 
or, along with several others of the same kind, might be 
arranged as a sub-genera, or particular family of that tribe, 
which might with propriety be called Worm-eaters, the 
Motacilla vermivora of Turton having the bill exactly of this 
