SPECIES 35. SYLVM PARUS. 



HEMLOCK WARBLER. 



[Plate XLIV. Fig. 3.] 



THIS is another nondescript, first met with in the Great Pine 

 swamp, Pennsylvania. From observing it almost always among 

 the branches of the hemlock trees, I have designated it by that 

 appellation, the markings of its plumage not affording me a pe- 

 culiarity sufficient for a specific name. It is a most lively and 

 active little bird, climbing among the twigs, and hanging like a 

 Titmouse on the branches; but possessing all the external char- 

 acters of the Warblers. It has a few low and very sweet notes, 

 at which times it stops and repeats them for a short time, then 

 darts about as before. It shoots after flies to a considerable dis- 

 tance; often begins at the lower branches, and hunts with great 

 regularity and admirable dexterity, upwards to the top, then 

 flies off to the next tree, at the lower branches of which it com- 

 mences hunting upwards as before. 



This species is five inches and a half long, and eight inches 

 in extent; bill black above, pale below; upper parts of the plu- 

 mage black, thinly streaked with yellow olive; head above yel- 

 low, dotted with black; line from the nostril over the eye, sides 

 of the neck and whole breast rich yellow; belly paler, streaked 

 with dusky; round the breast some small streaks of blackish; 

 wing black, the greater coverts and next superior row broadly 

 tipt with white, forming two broad bars across the wing; prim- 

 aries edged with olive, tertials with white; tail coverts black, 

 tipt with olive; tail slightly forked, black, and edged with olive; 

 the three exterior feathers altogether white on their inner vanes; 

 legs and feet dirty yellow; eye dark hazel; a few bristles at the 

 mouth; bill not notched. 



This was a male. Of the female I can at present give no account. 

 VOL. ii. 3 D 



