_Protonotaria citrea. Case 5, Fig. 29_
The female is duller than the male, but is too
like him to be mistaken for the mate of any other
Warbler, while he is in a class by himself. L.
5-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from Florida to Delaware and
southeastern Minnesota; winters in the tropics.
Washington, of irregular occurrence in May. N.
Ohio, one record, May 9. Glen Ellyn, rare, spring
only, May 13-15. SE. Minn., common S.R., of
Mississippi bottoms, May 7-Aug. 16.
No description or illustration prepares one for the gleaming beauty of
the Golden Swamp Warbler. Cypress swamps or willow-bordered sloughs,
where it may nest in the opening in old stubs, are its chosen haunts,
and in such places it is sometimes found in numbers. The white eggs,
thickly marked with brown, are laid in May.