194 ^UUTII AMEUU'AN JJIUIJS. 



k'lives, (Irv gmsses, .iiul ti])r(ui.s i(X)t.s. Dr. (Jorlumlt informed me tliat these 

 birds usually liuilil on or near the ground, under tussocks of grass, in clumps 

 of bushes, or jMne-brush, and that they lay from four to live eggs, from the 

 Hth to the ir)th of May. 



The eggs of this st>ecies are of a Ijeautiful, clear crystal-white, with a few 

 bright reddish -brown spots around the larger end. Kggs from llacine, Wis., 

 and fnnn Northern (leorgia, diller greatly in their relative size. The for- 

 mer measure .70 of an inch in length and .00 in breadth ; the latter, .G.'5 

 bv .41 ». 



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A single specimen of this species was obtained by Mr. Salvin, at C'hoctum, 

 in Guatemala. 



Helminthophaga bachmani, C ah.vn. 



BACHMATS WABBLEB. 



S;ilvm hiichmnni, Ari). Orn. liio",'. II, 1834, 4S:3, pi. clxxxiii. Sjilrknln h. Rich. Vcrmi- 

 vora h. Bon. Hdumin I. All). Syii. Birds Am. II, 1841, l»3, pi. cviii. — Lf.mbeve, 

 Av C'uIki, 1850, 3tJ, pi. vi. fig. 1. Httniithmis h. Hon. Udiniulhtpluiga b. Cab. 

 .Tour. Ill, 1855, 475 (Cuba, iu winttr). — Baikis Binls N. Aui. 1858, 255; Hev. 175. 

 — GrNi.LArH, Cab, .Jour. 1861, 32(5 (Cuba, ran) ; KeiK'rt. (55, 232. 



Sp. Char. Above olive-frreen, as also are the sides of the head and neck. Hind 

 head tinpred with ash. A broad patch on the forehead, bonlert'd behind by black; chin, 

 stripe from this along the side of the throat, and the entire under parts, deep yellow. 

 Throat and forepart of breast black. A ])at<'h on the inner wch of tlie outer two tail- 

 feathers near the end white. Lent:th. 4.')«> ; wiiiir, 2..'J."); tail, 2.0.'). Female w'xih merely 

 a patch of dusky on tlu' jiiirulum. ;nnl with the lilack bar on vertex obsolete. 



Hab. Coikjt of South Carolina and Georgia ; Cuba in winter. 



Habits. Bnchman's Warbler is a comparatively new and but little known 

 species of this interesting grou]). It was first discovered, 'Tuly, 1833, by Kev. 

 Dr. John Bachman, a few miles from Charleston, S. C, and in the same vi- 

 cinity he afterwards discovered a few others of both sexes. He described it 

 as a lively, active bird, gliding among the branches of the thick bushes, occa- 

 sionally mounting on the wing and seizing insects in the air, in the manner 

 of a Flycatcher. The individual first obtained ^^as an old female which 

 had, to all appearances, just reared a brood of young. With this partial ex- 

 ception, nothing is known in relation to its habits. As all the species of this 

 genus, without any at present known exception, construct their nests upon 

 the ground, it is a natural inference that it probably nests in a similar situa- 

 tion. 



The Smithsonian Institution possesses but a single specimen of this bird, 

 obtained near Charleston, S. C. It was not observed l)y any naturalist of 

 the several governmental exjdoring expeditions, and, so far as we are at 

 present informed, its only known places of abode are South Carolina and 

 Cuba, where it is extremely rare. Its nest and eggs still remain unknown. 



