. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . arbler, form the olive group. The parti-colored group contains the Golden-winged, Lawrences, Brewsters, the Blue-winged Yellow, and Bachmans Warblers. The Tennessee Warbler is about five inches long and is bright olive In the Woods. iM green on the back and rump. The head ami sides of the face are in sharpcontrast to the rest of the upper parts, being ash gray with a bluish tinge,which becomes grayer on the sides of the face, and there is a stripe over theeye of grayish white. The wings and tail are dusky, with olive green
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . arbler, form the olive group. The parti-colored group contains the Golden-winged, Lawrences, Brewsters, the Blue-winged Yellow, and Bachmans Warblers. The Tennessee Warbler is about five inches long and is bright olive In the Woods. iM green on the back and rump. The head ami sides of the face are in sharpcontrast to the rest of the upper parts, being ash gray with a bluish tinge,which becomes grayer on the sides of the face, and there is a stripe over theeye of grayish white. The wings and tail are dusky, with olive green edg-ings to the feathers. The under parts are white, more or less suffused withyellow, the sides and flanks are grayish, the belly and feathers under the tailare white. The female is like the male, but has the gray of the head suf-fused with greenish olive, and is yellower beneath. Immature birds arebright olive green above, including the top and sides of the head. Theirunder parts are much suffused with yellowish, except the feathers below thetail, which are -rffcMiy^T^-^^^**- TENNESSEE WARBLER. The nest is built of fine plant fibres and moss, lined with finer materialand hair, and is usually placed in bushes near the ground. The eggs, gener-ally four in number, are white, with a circle of brown dots of varying shadesat the larger end. They are about three fifths of an inch long, and half aninch in their other diameter. The birds are found throughout Eastern North America, during theirmigrations, and breed from Northern New York and Maine northward toHudsons Bay. They winter in Central America. 132 Bird Studies. This Warbler is about the size of the Tennessee Warbler, is olive green with a suggestion of grayish suffusion on the upper parts. Its distinctive Ora e-p rrowned ^^•^3 are a more or less concealed croivn patch of broivn- Warbler. ^^^ orange, and a yellow eye ring. The lower parts are H<:iminthophiiaceiata(Say), grecnish ycllow, grayer on the sides and fl
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