SYLVIA CORONATA. 



YELLOW RUMP. 



[Plate XLV. Fig. 3.] 



EDWARDS, 255.Jlrct. Zool n, p. 400, 7Vo. 288. 



IN plate 17, fig. 4, this bird is represented in his perfect co- 

 lours; 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 be- 

 comes 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 ber- 

 ries of that shrub; from which circumstance they are usually 

 called in that quarter Myrtle-birds. Their breeding place I sus- 

 pect to be 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, seem- 

 ing particularly 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 in the same pursuit. They also dart after 

 flies wherever they can see them, generally skipping about with 

 the wings loose. 



Length five inches and a quarter, extent eight inches; upper 

 parts and sides of the neck a dark mouse brown, obscurely 

 streaked on the back with dusky black ; lower parts pale dull 

 yellowish white; breast marked with faint streaks of brown; chin 

 and vent white; rump vivid yellow; at each side of the breast, 



