end and sparingly specked
over the whole surface with reddish brown and chestnut. Size .65 x .50.

641. BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. _Vermivora pinus._

Range.--Eastern United States, breeding north to southern New England
and in the Mississippi Valley to Minnesota; winters south of our
borders.

This common species has the crown and underparts yellow, line through
the eye black, and white wing bars and spots on outer tail feathers.
They breed most abundantly in the northern half of their United States
range, placing their nests on the ground in thickets or on the edge of
woods; the nests are made of strips of bark, usually grapevine, and
leaves, and are usually high and deeply cupped, they are almost always
placed among the upright shoots of young bushes. The eggs are white,
finely specked with reddish brown with great variations as to markings.
Size .65 x .50. Data.--Old Saybrook, Conn., June 1, 1900. 5 eggs. Nest
composed chiefly of dry beech leaves and strips of cedar bark, lined
with shreds of bark and fine grass; situated on the ground among a bunch
of weeds in the woods.

[Illustration 389: Bachman's Warbler. Lawrence's Warbler. Brewster's
Warbler.]
[Illustration: White.]
[Illustration: right hand margin.]

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642. GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. _Vermivora chrysoptera._

Range.--Eastern United States, breeding north to the southern parts of
the British Provinces, winters south of the United States.

This is a very handsome species with black throat and ear patches, and
yellow crown and wing bars, the upper parts being gray and the lower
white. They frequent low fields or hillsides where they nest among weeds
or vines, making the nest of strips of bark, grasses and fibres, and
locating it close to the ground in clumps of weeds, low bushes or
briers. The three to five eggs are white with a very great diversity of
markings, either heavily or minutely spotted or wreathed with chestnut
and gray. Size .62 x .50.

643. LUCY'S WARBLER. _Vermivora luciae._

Range.--Western Mexico, north commonly to Arizona and casually to
southern Utah.

This small gray and white Warbler is especially distinguished by a
chestnut rump and patch in center of the crown. Besides nesting in forks
of low bushes, this species is said to place the domiciles in almost any
crevice or nook that suits their fancy, such as loose bark on tree
trunks, holes in trees, or other birds' nests. The eggs which are
usually laid during May are white,