. Birds of North Carolina . overed by Philipp and Bowdish onGreat Lake, in June, 1909. This strikingly beautiful Warbler is essentially a lover of water, being abundantin cypress swamps and along sluggish streams. The localities from which it has been recorded in the State are Bertie County;Raleigh and Wakefield in Wake County; White Lake in Bladen County; the CravenCounty lakes; Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County; Cape Hatteras, Dare County;Beaufort, Carteret County; Gatesville, Gates County; Orton, Brunswick County;and Jacksonville, Onslow County. I OTy Genus Helinaia (Aud.) 274. Helinaia swa
. Birds of North Carolina . overed by Philipp and Bowdish onGreat Lake, in June, 1909. This strikingly beautiful Warbler is essentially a lover of water, being abundantin cypress swamps and along sluggish streams. The localities from which it has been recorded in the State are Bertie County;Raleigh and Wakefield in Wake County; White Lake in Bladen County; the CravenCounty lakes; Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County; Cape Hatteras, Dare County;Beaufort, Carteret County; Gatesville, Gates County; Orton, Brunswick County;and Jacksonville, Onslow County. I OTy Genus Helinaia (Aud.) 274. Helinaia swainsoni (Aud.). Swainsons Warbler. Description: .l(/.s.—Crown cinnamon-brown; a whitish line over the eye; back, rump, wings,and tail ohve-giayish brown without white; undcrparts soiled, yellowish white, grayer on thesides. L., ; W., ; T., ; B. from N., .46. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) Range.—South Atlantic and Gulf States, wintering in the West Indies. Range in North Carolina.—Swamps of the coastal Fig. 221. W-\rblek. This is a plain-colored warbler, inhabiting the canebrakes and swamps of theLower Austral Zone in the United States, and in this State has been recordedfrom Craven County, where a single specimen was taken on April 13, 1885, by BiKDS OF XOKTK CaKOLIXA H. H. Biimlfv. In the same county individuals were heard singing in the woodsbetween Little Lake and Lake Ellis in May, 1007 and 190S, by C. S. and Philipp in Jinie, 1909, discovered one feeding young in the woodsnear Great Lake, Craven County. J. E. Goukl, of Berkeley, Virginia, writes usthat he found a nest containing four slightly incubated eggs near Edenton, N. C,on May 10, 190G. He also saw birds in the same region in 1907. The nest is large, loose, and bulky, and is placed in a low bush or bunch ofcanes, usually but a few feet from the ground. The eggs arc ])ure white, .75 X .57. This bird is shy, preferring s\vam])s or damji woods, where it ma
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