. Birds of North Carolina . , ^Iexieo, etc. Range in Sorlh Carolina.—So far, known as a transient at Raleigh and a summer visitor in themountains. The CJoldcn-winged Warbler, easily known from our other species by the blackthroat, ashy u])i)erparts, and yellow wing-])atch, has been taken at Raleigh only onMay 7 in 1889, the same date, 1891, and on August 26, 1886, and August 30, the momttains, however, it ajijiears to be more common, arriving api)arently Desckiptive List 279 late in April, as a rule, though we have it recorded one year from Weaverville asearly as April 9. It has also b
. Birds of North Carolina . , ^Iexieo, etc. Range in Sorlh Carolina.—So far, known as a transient at Raleigh and a summer visitor in themountains. The CJoldcn-winged Warbler, easily known from our other species by the blackthroat, ashy u])i)erparts, and yellow wing-])atch, has been taken at Raleigh only onMay 7 in 1889, the same date, 1891, and on August 26, 1886, and August 30, the momttains, however, it ajijiears to be more common, arriving api)arently Desckiptive List 279 late in April, as a rule, though we have it recorded one year from Weaverville asearly as April 9. It has also been reported from Jackson and Macon counties, byBrewster, as being common in 1885 at from 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation, and fromAndrews, in Cherokee County, by Mrs. Wilson. Cairns states that in BuncombeCounty it is found in summer from 3,500 feet elevation upward, and that it breedsin Jime. The nest is built on the ground under a small bush or tussock. The eggsare usually four, pure white, sj^arsely speckled with / Fig. 225. ;d W-4kbler. Besides the above records, Sherman saw a single male at Blantyre, TransylvaniaCounty, early in May, 1908, and another, near Highlands, a few days later. A .single specimen of the so-called Wavbler, Ycrmivora Ifucohroiicliialis (),was taken at Raleigh by H. H. Brimley on September 6, 1888, and was identified by color was a mixed greenish and bluish above, the rump, however, being without any bluishtint; the loral strip was black, and there were black traces on the auriculars; imderparts mostlywhite except the forepart of the breast, which was mostly yellow; throat and neck below white,chin yellow. Crown, forehead, and wing-bars bright yellow. This form, which is not infrecjucntly found in the Connecticut Valley in summer, and lessoften in other portions of the Eastern States, is now considered by many ornithologists to be ahybrid between the Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warblers, or possi
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