YELLOW-THROATED GREY WARBLER. 375 



occasionally found in West Florida, and perhaps may 

 also occur in South Carolina, where the bird is known 

 likewise to reside. This curious fabric is suspended to 

 a kind of ropes, which hang from tree to tree, usually de- 

 pending from branches that bend over rivers or ravines. 

 The nest itself is made of dry blades of grass, the ribs of 

 leaves, and slender root-fibres, the whole interwoven to- 

 gether with great art ; it is also fastened to, or rather 

 worked into, the pendent strings made of the tough silky 

 fibres of some species of Echites, or other plant of that 

 family. It is, in fact, a small circular bed, so thick and 

 compact as to exclude the rain, left to rock in the wind 

 without sustaining, or being accessible to any injury. The 

 more securely to defend this precious habitation from the 

 attacks of numerous enemies, the opening or entrance 

 is neither made on the top nor the side, but at the bot- 

 tom ; nor is the access direct, for after passing the vesti- 

 bule, it is necessary to go over a kind of partition, and 

 through another aperture, before it descends into the 

 guarded abode of its eggs and young. This interior 

 lodgment is round and soft, being lined with a kind of 

 lichen, or the silky down of plants.* 



This species is about 5^ inches in length, and 8 in alar extent. 

 Tail emarginate, black, edged with grey ; wings black, the first row 

 of wing-coverts edged and tipped with white, the second row almost 

 wholly white. Line between the eye and nostril, whole throat and 

 middle of the breast, yellow ; the lower eye-lid, line over the eye, and 

 spot beliind the ear-feathers, as well as the whole lower parts, pure 

 white ; the yellow on the throat bordered with touches of black, 

 which also extend on the sides under the wings. Bill black. Legs 

 yellowish-brown. 



* A very difFerent nest, resembling that of the Wood Pewee, is attributed to this 

 species by Audubon, who also describes the eggs as white, with a few purple dots at 

 the large end. 



