SPECIES 32. SYLVM AGILIS. 



CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



[Plate XXXIX. Fig. 4.] 



THIS is a new species, first discovered in the state of Connec- 

 ticut, and twice since met with in the neighbourhood of Phila- 

 delphia. As to its notes or nest, I am altogether unacquainted 

 with them. The different specimens I have shot corresponded 

 very nearly in their markings; two of these were males, and 

 the other undetermined, but conjectured also to be a male. It 

 was found in every case among low thickets, but seemed more 

 than commonly active, not remaining for a moment in the same 

 position. In some of my future rambles I may learn more of 

 this solitary species. 



Length five inches and three quarters, extent eight inches; 

 whole upper parts a rich yellow olive; wings dusky brown, 

 edged with olive; throat dirty white, or pale ash; upper part of 

 the breast dull greenish yellow; rest of the lower parts a pure 

 rich yellow; legs long, slender, and of a pale flesh colour; round 

 the eye a narrow ring of yellowish white; upper mandible pale 

 brown, lower whitish; eye dark hazel. 



Since writing the above I have shot two specimens of a bird 

 which in every particular agrees with the above, except in hav- 

 ing the throat of a dull buff* colour instead of pale ash; both of 

 these were females, and I have little doubt but they are of the 

 same species with the present, as their peculiar activity seemed 

 exactly similar to the males above described. 



These birds do not breed in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 

 though they probably may be found in summer in the alpine 

 swamps and northern regions, in company with a numerous 

 class of the same tribe that breed in these unfrequented solitudes. 



