SPECIES 7. SYLVIA FLAVICOLLIS. 



YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 



[Plate XII. Fig. 6.] 



Yellow-throat Warbler, Jlrct. Zool. p. 400, JVo. 286.CATKSB. 

 i, 62. LATH, n, 441. LaMesange grise a gorge janne, BUFF. 

 v, 454. Lagorge jaunede St. Domingue, PL Enl. 686, Jig. 1.* 



THE habits of this beautiful species, like those of the preced- 

 ing, are not consistent with the shape and construction of its 

 bill; the former would rank it with the Titmouse, or with the 

 Creepers, the latter is decisively that of the Warbler. The first 

 opportunity I had of examining a living specimen of this bird 

 was in the southern parts of Georgia, in the month of February. 

 Its notes which were pretty loud and spirited, very much re- 

 sembled those of the Indigo-bird. It continued a considerable 

 time on the same pine tree, creeping around the branches and 

 among the twigs, in the manner of the Titmouse, uttering its 

 song every three or four minutes. On flying to another tree it 

 frequently alighted on the body, and ran nimbly up or down, 

 spirally and perpendicularly, in search of insects. I had after- 

 wards many opportunities of seeing others of the same species, 

 and found them all to correspond in these particulars. This was 

 about the 24th of February, and the first of their appearance 

 there that spring, for they leave the United States about three 

 months during winter, and consequently go to no great distance. 

 I had been previously informed that they also pass the summer 

 in Virginia and in the southern parts of Maryland; but they 

 very rarely proceed as far north as Pennsylvania. 



* Motacillapensilis, GMEI. i, p. 960. Motacilla jlavicollis, GXEI. Sysl. i, 959. 

 Sijlria peiuilis, LATH. Ind. Orn. n, p. 520. VIKILL. Ois. <fc I* Jim. Sept. pi. 12. 



