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Range (Eastern North America breeds) (XXXXIV)

Eastern North America; breeds from Hayti (?), the Bahamas, and Florida north to Manitoba and Maine; winters from southern Illinois and North Carolina southward.

Washington, quite uncommon S. R., Mch. 25 to Oct. 25; abundant in fall. Sing Sing, casual. Cambridge, common S. R., Apl. 10 to Oct. 20. Nest, of strips of bark, leaves, plant fibers, etc., in pines or cedars, thirty to fifty feet up. Eggs, four to five, white or grayish white, with numerous distinct and obscure cinnamon-brown to umber markings, chiefly in a wreath or band at the larger end, 70 x 52.

True to its name, the Pine Warbler is rarely found outside of pine woods. In the south, where pineries may extend over half a State, it is an abundant and generally distributed bird; in the more northern part of its range it is, from force of circumstances, a local species, occurring only with the pines.

In the winter it is found in small flocks, which may contain a few Myrtle or Palm Warblers, and at this season it lives on or near the ground. In the summer it is more arboreal. Its habit of clinging to the trunk of a tree, or hopping along a limb while searching for insects in crevices in the bark, has given it the misnomer of Pine Creeping Warbler.

Its song is a clear, sweet trill. Southern birds, in my experience, have more musical voices, and their notes suggest those of the Field Sparrow, while the song of northern birds has more the quality of the Chipping Sparrow's. 672. Dendroica palmarum (Gmel.). PALM WARBLER; RED-POLL