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ternally with bluish-gray, the extreme outer ones with white ; the secondaries edged 

 with olivaceous; two bands on the wing and the edges of the tertials white; the 

 under parts are whitish with a tinge of buff; the chin, throat, forepart of breast, and 

 the sides, chestnut-brown, lighter than the crown; two outer tail feathers with a 

 patch of white on the inner web near the end; the others edged internally with 

 the same. 



Female with the upper parts olive, streaked throughout with black, and an oc- 

 casional tinge of chestnut on the crown ; lower parts with traces of chestnut, but 

 no stripes. 



Length of male, five inches; wing, three and five one-hundredths inches; tail, 

 two and forty one-hundredths inches. 



This bird is extremely rare in New England. It has been 

 taken in all these States, bnt not in any numbers. Mr. 

 Allen took one on May 20 and May 25 ; and another was 

 taken in July, 1862, by Mr. B. Horsford of Springfield. I 

 have never seen one alive, and I can give no account of its 

 habits from my own observation. Nuttall says, — 



" It is an active insect-hunter, and keeps much towards the tops 

 of the highest trees, where it darts about with great activity, and 

 hangs from the twigs with fluttering wings." 



The species is a rare one in all parts of the New-England 

 States, and very little is known regarding its habits. 



DENDROICA PINUS.— 5aiVd 



The Pine-creeping Warbler. 



Sylvia pinus, Wilson. Am. Orn,, III. (1811) 25. Nutt. Man., L (1832) 387. 

 Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 232. 



Description. 



Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive-green, the feathers of the crown with 

 rather darker shafts; under parts generally, except the middle of the belly behind, 

 and under tail coverts (which are white), bright gamboge-yellow, with obsolete 

 streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body; sides of head and neck olive- 

 green like the back, with a broad superciliary stripe; the eyelids and a spot beneath 

 the eye very obscurely yellow; wings and tail brown; the feathers edged with dirty 

 white, and two bands of the same across the coverts; inner web of the first tail 

 feather with nearly the terminal half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, 

 dull inconspicuous white. 



Length, five and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, three inches; tail, two and 

 forty one-hundredths inches. 



