GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
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seen around Vera Cruz in autumn by Mr. Bullock. On 
its arrival it frequents gardens, orchards, and willow trees, 
gleaning among the blossoms, but at length withdraws 
into the silent woods remote from the haunts of men, to 
pass the period of breeding and rearing its young in 
more security. The nest, according to Wilson, is placed 
in a thick tuft or tussuck of long grass, occasionally 
sheltered and concealed by a briar. It is usually built 
in the form of an inverted funnel, the bottom thickly 
bedded with dry leaves ; the sides are framed of the dry 
bark of stout plants, and the interior lined with slender 
dry grass. The materials, instead of the usual circular 
arrangement, are inclined, or shelve downwards on all 
sides from the top to the bottom, which is narrowed. 
The eggs, 5, are pure white, with a few pale spots of red- 
dish near the greater end ; the young are hatched by the 
first week in June. 
Length 5J inches ; alar extent 7J. Vent white. Wings and tail 
deep brown, edged with pale blue. Bill black above, lighter below. 
Legs pale bluish. Feet dirty yellow. — The female scarcely differs 
from the male. 
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
( Sylvia chrysoptera , Lath. Wilson, ii. p. 113. pi. 15. fig. 6. [male], 
Bonap. Am. Orn. i. p. 12. pi. 1. fig. 3. [female]. Phil. Museum. 
No. 7010.) 
Sp. Charact. — Darkjduish-grey ; crown and wing-coverts golden- 
yellow ; beneath white ; throat and band through the eye black. 
— Female olive ; front and wing-coverts yellow ; breast, and over 
the eye, dusky. 
This scarce species appears only a few days in Penn- 
sylvania about the last of April or beginning of May. 
It darts actively through the leafy branches, and like the 
Titmouse examines the stems for insects, and often walks 
with the head downwards ; its notes and actions are also 
