242 BIRDS—SYLVICOLID &. 
After the breeding season is over they sometimes wander about before 
departing for the south. On one occasion I took a specimen in my gar- 
den. 
GENUS HELMINTHOPHAGA Cabanis. 
Bill slender and exceedingly acute, unnotched, unbristled. Wings long and pointed, 
the first quill nearly or quite the longest. Tailnearly even or slightly emarginate, short 
aud rather slender. Tarsi longer than middle toe, 
HELMINTHOPHAGA PINUS (L.) Bd. 
Blue-winged Wellow Warbler. 
Sylvia solitaria, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 163, 182. 
Vermivora solitaria, READ, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., vi, 1853, 395. 
Helminthophaga pinus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1861, 5; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric, Rep. fur 1874, 563; Reprint, 1875, 5—LANGDON, Cat: 
Birds of Cin., 1877, 5; Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist, i, 1879, 171; Re- 
print, 0. 
Certhia pinus, LINN EUS, Syst, Nat., i, 1766, 187. 
Sylvia solitaria, WILSON, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 129. 
Vermivora solitaria, JARDINE, ‘‘ Ed. Wils., 13832.” 
Helminthophaga pinus, BAIRD, Birds North Am., 1858, 264. 
Crown and entire under parts rich yellow ; upper parts yellow olive, becoming slaty 
blue on the wings and tail, the former with two white or yellowish bais, the latter with 
several large white blotches. Bill and line through the eye black. Female and young 
similar. Length5; wing 24; tail 24. 
Habitat, Eastern United States; north to Massachusetts and Minnesota; south to 
Guatemala; west tolowa, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Texas. 
Rather common summer resident from May Ist to September Ist. 
Breeds. The Blue-winged Yellow Warbler is a bird of the most retired 
woodlandand swamps. Though considered by Audubon one of the swamp 
warblers, it is often found on high ground, but usually in the vicinity 
of water. Their ordinary nove is a rather sharpchirp. The song is said 
to be a rapid chirrup, forcible and characteristic. I obtained specimens 
in the spring of 1874, in my gardea, which had evidently spent some 
considerable time in pine woods, their plumage being soiled with 
pitch. The site chosen for a nest is usually in the edge of soli- 
tary woods, often the border of aswamp. The nest is described by Mr. 
Ridgway, as composed of thin strips of the inner bark of trees, and quite 
bulky. The eggs are white, sprinkled with a few reddish-brown spots, 
and measure .70 by .54. 
