The song of this bird so closely resembles that of the Brook Warbler (Seiurus motacilla) that the listener is apt to mistake it for the latter. Wayne found it to be a permanent resident near Charleston, South Carolina, and Brewster states that its favorite abode was in the open piney woods of Georgia where they spent most of their time searching the larger branches for food with hopping (rather than creeping) motions.
NEST: Built of short twigs and bark strips bound with Spanish moss: lined with a few bits of moss and vegetable down: compactly built and located well up in pine trees.
EGGS: Four: dull white or greenish, blotched and speckled with numerous dull lavender and many shades of brown with paler undershell tints. One of the easiest of the Warbler eggs to identify.
Eastern North America, east of Alleghenies north to Maryland.
The habits and breeding of this subspecies are similar to the Yellowthroat Warbler; the only variation is its range.
Mississippi Valley north to Ohio.
A small 25-foot tree locally distributed from the coast of South Carolina to Biscayne Bay and in the naborhood of Apalachicola, Florida.