650 GREENISH WARBLER. 



kinds, particularly those of the ivy, upon which "it 

 feeds upon its first arrival, if there be not a suf- 

 ficient supply of insects, which are its principal 

 food. 



GREENISH WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia virescens.) 



SY. fusco-virescens, pileo nigricante, cervice cinereo, superciliis 



albis, alis caudaque nigricantibus. 

 Brown-green Warbler, with the top of the head dusky, the nape 



ash-coloured, the eyebrows white, and the wings and tail 



dusky. 



Sylvia virescens. VieiL Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 40. 

 Sylvia atricapilla. S. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 50Q. 6. 

 Fauvette verdatre de laLouisiane. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 1(52. 



Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 40. 

 Black-cap Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 41?. c. 



THIS equals the Black-cap in size : its beak is 

 dusky : eyebrows white : the top of the head 

 dusky : the hind part of the neck is deep ash ; 

 the sides and back pale brown, tinged with green : 

 the wings and tail green-brown : throat white : 

 rest of the under parts grey. Inhabits Louisiana. 



