SPECIES IS. SYLVM PINUS. 

 PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 



[Plate XIX. Fig. 4.] 

 Pine- Creeper, CATESB. i, 61. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 7312. 



THIS species inhabits the pine woods of the Southern states, 

 where it is resident, and where I first observed it, running along 

 the bark of the pines; sometimes alighting" and feeding on the 

 ground, and almost always when disturbed flying up and cling- 

 ing to the trunks of the trees. As I advanced towards the south 

 it became more numerous. Its note is a simple reiterated chir- 

 rup, continued for four or five seconds. 



Catesby first figured and described this bird; but so imper- 

 fectly as to produce among succeeding writers great confusion, 

 and many mistakes as to what particular bird was intended. 

 Edwards has supposed it to be the Blue-winged Yellow Warb- 

 ler; Latham has supposed another species to be meant; and the 

 worthy Mr. Pennant has been led into the same mistakes; des- 

 cribing the male of one species, and the female of another, as 

 the male and female Pine-Creeper. Having shot and examined 

 great numbers of these birds I am enabled to clear up these dif- 

 ficulties by the following descriptions, which will be found to 

 be correct. 



The Pine-creeping Warbler is five and a half inches long, and 

 nine inches in extent; the whole upper parts are of a rich green 

 olive, with a considerable tinge of yellow; throat, sides, and 

 breast yellow; wings and tail brown with a slight cast of bluish, 

 the former marked with two bars of white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow; tail forked, and edged with ash; the three exterior feath- 

 ers marked near the tip with a broad spot of white; middle of 

 the belly and vent feathers white. The female is brown, tinged 



