188 YELLOW RUMP. 



little, chiefly in the colors being less vivid and not so strongly marked 

 with a tincture of brownish on the back. 



In the month of October the slate color has changed to a brownish 

 olive, the streaks of black are also considerably brown ; and the white 

 is stained with the same color ; the tail coverts, however, still retain 

 their slaty hue, the yellow on the crown, and sides of the breast becomes 

 nearly obliterated. Their only note is a kind of chip, occasionally re- 

 peated. Their motions are quick, and one can scarcely ever observe 

 them at rest. 



Though the form of the bill of this bird obliges me to arrange him 

 with the Warblers, yet in his food and all his motions he is decisively 

 a Flycatcher. 



On again recurring to the descriptions in Pennant of the " Yellow- 

 rump Warbler,"* "Golden-crowned W.,"t and "Belted AV.,"| I am 

 persuaded that the whole three have been drawn from the present 

 species. 



SYLVIA CORONATA. 



YELLOW RUMP. 



[Plate XLV. Fig. 3.] 

 Edwards, 255.— ^rc^. Zool. ii., p. 400, No. 288. 



In plate 17, fig. 4, this bird is represented in his perfect colors ; the 

 present figure exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives to us from 

 the north early in September ; the former shows him in his spring and 

 summer dress, as he visits us from the south about the twentieth of 

 March. These birds remain with us in Pennsylvania from September 

 until the season becomes severely cold, feeding on the berries of the red 

 cedar ; and as December's snows come on they retreat to the lower 

 countries of the Southern States, where in February I found them in 

 great numbers among the myrtles, feeding on the berries of that shrub ; 

 from which circumstance they are usually called in that quarter Myrtle- 

 birds. Their breeding place I suspect to be in in our northern districts, 

 among the swamps and evergreens so abundant there, having myself 

 shot them in the Great Pine swamp about the middle of May. 



They range along our whole Atlantic coast in winter, seeming parti- 

 cularly fond of the red cedar and the myrtle ; and I have found them 

 numerous, in October, on the low islands along the coast of New Jersey 



• Arct. Zool. p. 400, No. 188. f lb. No. 294. % lb. No. 306. 



