SPECIES 24. SYLVIA PEREGRINE 

 TENNESEE WARBLER. 



[Plate XXV. Fig. 2.] 

 PE ALE'S Museum, JVo. 7787. 



THIS plain little bird has hitherto remained unknown. I first 

 found it on the banks of Cumberland river, in the state of Ten- 

 nesee, and supposed it to be a rare species, having since met 

 with only two individuals of the same species. It was hunting 

 nimbly among the young leaves, and like all the rest of the fa- 

 mily of Worm-eaters, to which by its bill it evidently belongs, 

 seemed to partake a good deal of the habits of the Titmouse. 

 Its notes were few and weak; and its stomach on dissection 

 contained small green caterpillars, and a few winged insects. 



As this species is so very rare in the United States, it is most 

 probably a native of a more southerly climate, where it may be 

 equally numerous with any of the rest of its genus. The small 

 Cerulean Warbler, (Plate XVII, fig. 5.) which in Pennsylva- 

 nia, and almost all over the atlantic states, is extremely rate, I 

 found the most numerous of its tribe in Tennesee and West 

 Florida; and the Carolina Wren, (Plate XII, fig. 5.) which is 

 also scarce to the northward of Maryland, is abundant through 

 the whole extent of country from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. 



Particular species of birds, like different nations of men, have 

 their congenial climes and favourite countries; but wanderers 

 are common to both; some in search of better fare; some of 

 adventures; others led by curiosity; and many driven by storms 

 and accident. 



The Tennesee Warbler is four inches and three quarters long, 

 and eight inches in extent; the back, rump and tail coverts, are 



