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 :yellowish white. Wings and tail brownish, white wing bars. Bill and feet dark.


 * Female:
 * Chin yellowish, throat dusky, below pale whitish. In autumn plumage the male resembles the female.


 * Song:
 * Cheerful interrogative, "Will you co-ome, will you co-ome, will you?"


 * Season:
 * A summer resident, also abundant in the migrations. Comes in April, retires to woods to breed in May, emerges in September.


 * Breeds:
 * From New England, New York, and the higher parts of Pennsylvania northward.


 * Nest:
 * At the forking of high branches; made of twigs, bark, grasses, and lined with hair, roots, down, etc.


 * Eggs:
 * 4-5, white, sprinkled and veiled with brown-purple.


 * Range:
 * Eastern North America to the Plains, north to Hudson's Bay Territory; in winter, south to Cuba and Panama. Accidental in Greenland and Europe.

You will have but little trouble in recognizing this brilliant and talkative little Warbler, which comes to us both as a summer resident and as a migrant. In late April I am always sure to see its green and gold feathers among the hemlocks on the east side of the garden, while it continually utters its anxious and persuasive notes, to which I eagerly respond. It repeats a little phrase that separates it from the indistinct songs of so many of its tribe: "Will you co-ome, will you co-ome, will you?" it says, giving a particularly emphatic pause on the last two syllables.

It has never nested in the garden, and only comes to it before the breeding and after the moulting season.

 Pine Warbler: Dendroica vigorsii.

Chimney Swallow.


 * Length:
 * 5.50-6 inches.


 * Male:
 * Above bright yellowish olive, clear yellow below, dark streaks on sides. Yellow eye line; white bars on wings. White blotches on two outer tail feathers.


 * Female:
 * Dull throughout, dirty white instead of yellow breast.


 * Song:
 * A delicately trilled whistle. (Minot.)


 * Season: 
 * A locally common summer resident, May to October and November. Possibly a resident. Some remain in the Middle States all winter.


 * Breeds:
 * All through its range, beginning in the Carolinas in March.


 * Nest and Eggs:
 * No special marks of identification.