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. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ly accidental. WORM-EATING vermivorus {Gm.) Bp. Chars. Olivaceous, the head and under parts buffy, paler or whitishon the belly, the head with four sharp black stripes — one oneach side of crown, another through each eye; wings and taillike back, without any markings. Bill and feet pale stout, acute, unnotched, unbristled, at least , ; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, A rare summer resident in southernmost New Eng-land only, where it has chiefly been o
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ly accidental. WORM-EATING vermivorus {Gm.) Bp. Chars. Olivaceous, the head and under parts buffy, paler or whitishon the belly, the head with four sharp black stripes — one oneach side of crown, another through each eye; wings and taillike back, without any markings. Bill and feet pale stout, acute, unnotched, unbristled, at least , ; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, A rare summer resident in southernmost New Eng-land only, where it has chiefly been observed in Con-necticut. It is normallylimited in northward dis-persion by the CarolinianFauna. It was ascribed toConnecticut by Linsley, in1843, a specimen having Fig. Warbler. been taken at Ncw Havcn (Natural size.) ^^^. ^^ J_ J), Whclplcy. Mr. H. A. Purdie records its capture in the nestingseason at Saybrook, by Mr. J. N. Clark (Am. Nat.,vii, Nov., 1873, p. 692), and the same writer also men-tions a male shot by Mr. Shores at Sufiield, Aug. ?2,. H. PINUS : BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. Ill 1874 (Bull. Nuttall Club, ii, Jan., 1877, p. 21). Inhis Review of Connecticut Birds (1877, p. 13), observes : Mr. Clark tells me he has seenas many as five individuals in a single day. Osborne, of New Haven, has a mountedspecimen in his cabinet, procured May 17, or three other specimens were shot near here inMay, 1875, ^d ^^ George Bird Grinnell tells methat he has known of the capture of several in thisvicinity. To these instances of the normal northernlimit of the species, and the implied though unverifiedfact of its breeding in Connecticut, I have to add, thatI have seen the bird in Massachusetts, at East Hamp-ton ; and that Prof. Verrill has recorded its presencein Maine (Proc. Essex Inst., iii, p. 156). BLUE-WINGED YELLOW PINUS (Z.) Bd. Chars. Above, yellowish-olive, becoming slaty-blue on the wingsand tail, the crow
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