400 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



not uncommon in Kentucky and Tennessee, and from 

 thence inhabiting throughout the country to the estuaries 

 of the Mississippi. It frequents low, damp woods, and 

 the desolate borders of the lagoons, cane-brakes, and 

 swamps, near the banks of the great rivers. It arrives 

 in Kentucky about the middle of April, but enters the 

 southern extremity of the Union from Mexico by the 

 same time in March, and by the middle of September 

 retires south of the United States. The males are very 

 pugnacious in the pairing season of spring, and utter 

 some loud notes, in threes, resemblinor the sound of 

 Hweedle tweedle tioeedle. They attach the nest often 

 to stems of stout weeds, or place it in a tuft of grass. It 

 is made of the dry bark of herbaceous plants, mixed with 

 downy substances, and lined with the cotton of the seed 

 of the wild poplar. The eggs, 4 to 6, are pure white, 

 and sprinkled with specks of reddish. The female begins 

 to sit early in May, and they have usually two broods in 

 the season, They now associate in families, and live in 

 the greatest harmony. The species is scarcely known 

 to the east of North Carolina. 



This Warbler is 5^ inches long, and 8 in alar extent. Above deep 

 green, tinged with olive, darkest on the upper part of the back. Tail 

 nearly even, rich olive-green. Legs whitish flesh-color. Upper 

 mandible blackish, the lower flesh-color. 



