246 SINGING BIRDS. 



States, and after staying to feed for a week or ten days, it 

 proceeds to its northern breeding-place in the wilds of Canada, 

 of which we are wholly ignorant. In November I have ob- 

 served a few on their return to the South, and according to 

 Vieillot, they winter in St. Domingo and other of the larger 

 West India islands. 



Near Farranville, on the Susquehanna, within the range of 

 the Alleghany Mountains, in the month of May, I saw and 

 heard several pairs of this rare species in the shady hemlock- 

 trees. The males were uttering their slender, wiry, and very 

 peculiar notes, while busily engaged in foraging for insects, 

 and seemed, by being paired, to prepare for incubation. 



The Pine Swamp Warbler {Sylvia sphagnosd) is now consid- 

 ered only as the young of this species, of which, however, I 

 think there yet remains some doubt. 



The history of this species need no longer remain a mystery, for 

 while not abundant, its nesting habits may be studied in any suita- 

 ble locaHty in northern New England or northern New York, and 

 westward to the Plains, or along the higher altitudes of the Alle- 

 ghanies as far down as Georgia ; though the major portion of the 

 flocks pass on to the Canadian faunal area before stopping to build. 



I did not meet with many examples in New Brunswick, and Mr. 

 Neilson thinks it rare near Quebec city; but Mr, Wintle calls it 

 common near Montreal, and the Ontario observers also regard it 

 as common. It winters in Florida as well as in the West Indies. 



KENTUCKY WARBLER. 



GeOTHLYPIS FORMOSA. 



Char. Above, olive ; crown and sides of head and neck, black ; line 

 from nostril to and around the eye yellow ; beneath, yellow, the sides 

 shaded with olive. Length 5/4 to ^% inches. 



N'est. On the ground, in rather thick woods ; a bulky affair of loosely 

 laid leaves and grass, lined with vegetable down, roots, or hair. 



Eggs. 4-6 ; white or creamy, spotted with lilac and several shades of 

 brown; 0.73 X 0.56. 



This beautiful species, first described by Wilson, frequents 

 the dark forests of the southwestern parts of the Union, being 



