Species XXXII. SYLVIA AGILIS. 



CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



[Plate XXXIX. Fig. 4.] 



This is a new species, first discovered in the state of Connecticut, 

 and twice since met with in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. As to 

 its notes or nest, I am altogether unacquainted with them. The difi'erent 

 specimens I have shot corresponded very nearly in their markings ; two 

 of these were males, and the other undetermined, but conjectured also 

 to be a male. It was found in every case among low thickets, but 

 seemed more than commonly active, not remaining for a moment in the 

 same position. In some of my future rambles I may learn more of this 

 solitary species. 



Length five inches and three quarters, extent eight inches ; whole 

 upper parts a rich yellow olive ; wings dusky brown, edged with 

 olive ; throat dirty white, or pale ash ; upper part of the breast dull 

 greenish yellow ; rest of the lower parts a pure rich yellow ; legs 

 long, slender, and of a pale flesh color ; round the eye a narrow ring 

 of yellowish white ; upper mandible pale brown, lower whitish ; eye 

 dark hazel. 



Since writing the above I have shot two specimens of a bird which in 

 every particular agrees with the above, except in having the throat of a 

 dull buff color instead of pale ash ; both of these were females, and I 

 have little doubt but they are of the same species with the present, 

 as their peculiar activity seemed exactly similar to the males above 

 described. 



These birds do not breed in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, though 

 they probably may be found in summer in the alpine swamps and 

 northern regions, in company with a numerous class of the same tribe 

 that breed in these unfrequented solitudes. 



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