. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 642 Field Museum of Natural History-—Zoology, Vol. IX. Genus HELMITHEROS Rafinesque. 303. Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmel.). Worm-eating Warbler. Distr.: Eastern United States, west to Nebraska and Texas and north to southern New England, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska; breeds throughout its United States range; south in winter to the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Central America, and northern South America. Adult: Crown, black, divided in centre by a broad tawny buff stripe; a tawny buff stripe over the eye and a black stripe through the eye; back
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 642 Field Museum of Natural History-—Zoology, Vol. IX. Genus HELMITHEROS Rafinesque. 303. Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmel.). Worm-eating Warbler. Distr.: Eastern United States, west to Nebraska and Texas and north to southern New England, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska; breeds throughout its United States range; south in winter to the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Central America, and northern South America. Adult: Crown, black, divided in centre by a broad tawny buff stripe; a tawny buff stripe over the eye and a black stripe through the eye; back and tail, olive green; primaries, fuscous, edged with olive green; no wing bars; under parts, buffy; whitish or buffy white on belly and throat. Sexes similar. Length, ; wing, ; tail, 2 ; bill, .48. The Worm-eating Warbler is a common summer resident in southern Illinois and rare in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Mr. E. W. Nelson procured a specimen at Waukegan on May 21, 1876, and Mr. R. W. Chaney informs me he observed an adult male in Jackson Park, Chicago, on May 11, 1908. Dr. Hoy states (Racine, 1852): "A few nest in this ; Regarding this statement Messrs. Kumlien and Hollistfer say: "As we remember it, he (Dr. Hoy) procured but three specimens in all, and knowing it to be a southern species supposed, of course, that it bred, if it occurred there at ; Thure Kumlien procured two speci- mens at Lake Koshkonong. (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 109.) It breeds commonly in southern Illinois. The nest is on the ground among dead leaves and is composed of fern stems, shreds of bark, and leaves. The eggs are 3 to 5, cream white, finely speckled chiefly at the larger end with brown, and measure about .69 x .51 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original wo
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