Length: About 5½ inches.
Male: Upper parts olive-green with a grayish tinge; throat and breast
yellow; sides streaked with gray; belly white; wings and tail
brownish-gray; wings with two whitish bars; _outer tail-feathers
tipped with white on inner web_.
Female: Similar to male, but browner above and duller underneath.
Notes: "Its alarm note is a sharp chirp, its other notes are few and
weak."
Song: "The song is one of the most soothing sounds of the pine-woods. It
has in it the same dreamy drowsiness that characterizes the note of
the Black-throated Green Warbler, but is otherwise entirely
different in tone and quality, being composed of a series of short,
soft, whistling notes, run together in a continuous trill. It
resembles, in a way, the song of the Chipping Sparrow, except that
it is softer and more musical."[149]
Habitat: "Pine woods and groves; it seems to prefer the pitch pines, and
is one of the few birds that habitually live and breed in woods of
this character, like those of Cape Cod. It has been called the
Pine-creeping Warbler, from its habit of creeping along the
branches, and occasionally up and around the trunks of pines."[149]
Range: Eastern North America. It is abundant in the South where pine
forests are common. It is found in southern Canada, northern and
eastern United States, in such pine-regions as Michigan and New
Jersey.