406 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



YELLOW WREN, or WILLOW WREN. 



(Sylvia Trochilus, Lath. ii. p. 512. Temminck, i. p. 224. (Ed. 2.) 

 Yellow Titmouse, Catesby, i. p. 63.) 



Sp. Charact. — Pale olive ; above the eye a line of dull yellow ; be- 

 low yellowish, fading to white on the belly ; wings and tail grey- 

 ish-brown, edged with olive ; the tail emarginate, exceeding the 

 length of the wings 12 lines ; 2d primary the length of the Gth. 



This hardy species, more rare in America, inhabits 

 also every part of Europe from Italy to Sweden. From 

 the United States, at the approach of winter, it migrates 

 to Jamaica, and other islands of the West Indies. In 

 the month of October they visit this vicinity on their way 

 to the South, and keep busily but silently foraging among 

 the low bushes of the gardens. They feed upon flies, 

 gnats, caterpillars, and various larvae. They frequent the 

 tops of trees, more particularly willows and alders, from 

 whence they often rise singing. The notes, though rath- 

 er low, are soft, and sweetly varied, and in Europe, 

 where they breed, continue to the month of October. It 

 makes its nest in holes, at the roots of trees, among moss 

 and leaves, or in dry banks, and arches it over like that 

 of the European Wren ; it is made chiefly of moss, lined 

 with wool and hair. The ecrors are 5 to 7, of a reddish 

 white, with large purplish-red spots, rather numerous at 

 the great end. According to Catesby they breed in 

 North Carolina. 



Length about 5 inches. Iris hazel. Legs yellowish-brown. In 

 the fcjnale the lower parts are of a paler and less pure yellow. 



PINE-SWAMP WARBLER. 



{Sylvia sphagnosa, Bonap. S. pusilla, Wilson, v. p. 100. pi. 43. 



fig. 4.) 



Sp. Charact. — Deep green olive ; beneath pale ochreous ; wings 

 with a triangular spot of yellowish- white ; 2 or 3 lateral tail-feath- 



