Length: About 5½ inches.
Male and Female: Back, wings, and tail olive-green, without white
markings; head with two narrow and two broad black stripes,
alternating with three cream-colored stripes; under parts
cream-colored, lighter on throat and belly.
Song: A weak trill.
Habitat: "The Worm-eating warbler seems to prefer dense undergrowth in
swampy thickets and wet places, ... wooded hillsides and ravines,
and dense undergrowths of woodland.... The nesting site is on the
ground."[140]
Range: Eastern North America from southern Iowa, northern Illinois,
western Pennsylvania, and the lower Hudson and Connecticut valleys,
south to Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and the mountains of South
Carolina.