_Dendroica vigorsi vigorsi. Case 4, Fig. 57; Case 6, Fig. 60_
The male is bright greenish yellow below,
sometimes duskily streaked; the female is tinged
with brown above, below is soiled whitish, tinged
with yellow. L. 5-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from the Gulf States to Canada;
winters from southern Illinois and Virginia
southward.
Washington, quite uncommon S.R., Mch. 20-Oct. 29,
abundant in fall. Ossining, casual. Cambridge,
locally common S.R., Apl. 10-Oct. 20; occasional
W.V. N. Ohio, rare T.V., Apl. 29-May 15. Glen
Ellyn, not common T.V., spring records only, Apl.
17-May 24. SE. Minn., common T.V., Apl. 26-.
Pine Warblers seem almost as much a part of pine woods as the trees
themselves. They feed on the ground below the pines, they glean from the
bark of the trunk, or from the clusters of 'needles' on the topmost
boughs, the very peace of the pines is expressed in their calm, even,
musical trill; and where there are no pines there are no Pine Warblers.
During the migration, it is true, they may be found elsewhere, but at
that season they are travelers, and travelers cannot always be
responsible for their surroundings. Their nest, of course, is always
built in pines, usually from 30-50 feet above the ground. The eggs laid
in March in the South, and early June in the North, are white wreathed
with brown at the larger end.