SPECIES 33. SYL VIA LE UCOP TERA. * 



PINE-SWAMP WARBLER. 



[Plate XLIIL-- Fig. 4.] 



THIS little bird is for the first time figured or described. Its 

 favourite haunts are in the deepest and gloomiest pine and hem- 

 lock swamps of our mountainous regions, where every tree, 

 trunk, and fallen log is covered with a luxuriant coat of moss, 

 that even mantles over the surface of the ground, and prevents 

 the sportsman from avoiding a thousand holes, springs and 

 swamps, into which he is incessantly plunged. Of the nest of 

 this bird I am unable to speak. I found it associated with the 

 Blackburnian Warbler, the Golden-crested Wren, Ruby-crown- 

 ed Wren, Yellow Rump, and others of that description, in such 

 places as I have described, about the middle of May. It seemed 

 as active in flycatching as in searching for other insects, darting 

 nimbly about among the branches, and flirting its wings; but I 

 could not perceive that it had either note or song. I shot three, 

 one male and two females. I have no doubt that they breed in 

 those solitary swamps, as well as many other of their associates. 



The Pine-swamp Warbler is four inches and a quarter long, 

 and seven inches and a quarter in extent; bill black, not notched, 

 but furnished with bristles; upper parts a deep green olive, with 

 slight bluish reflections, particularly on the edges of the tail 

 and on the head; wings dusky, but so broadly edged with olive 

 green as to appear wholly of that tint; immediately below the 

 primary coverts there is a single triangular spot of yellowish 

 white; no other part of the wing is white; the three exterior tail 



* Wilson first called this bird pusilla, but that name being preoccupied, he 

 changed it in the index to leucoptera; this latter name is also preoccupied, and 

 Prince Musignano has proposed that it should be called S. sphagnosa. 



