_Helinaia swainsoni. Case 5, Fig. 28_
No wing-bars, plain brown above, white below. L.
5.
_Range._ In summer from Florida and Louisiana
north to southern Illinois and southeastern
Virginia; winters in the tropics.
Comparatively few bird students have seen this retiring Warbler in its
haunts. "Water, tangled thickets, patches of cane, and a rank growth of
semi-aquatic plants," Brewster states, seem indispensable to its
existence. Its song in general effect, the same writer says, recalls
that of the Northern Water-Thrush. The nest is built in bushes, canes,
etc., and the white eggs are laid in May.