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VERTEBRATA. 



THE BLUE-WINGED TELLOW WAKBLER. 



It is six inclics long, its color brown above and yellowish-white beneath. This genus also m. 

 eludes the Cisticole Warbler, D. cistlcola, four and a half inches long, and celebrated for the 

 ingenuity with which it builds its nest. This is placed in a tuft of strong, coarse grass, and is 

 purse-shaped, with an opening at the side. 



(renMs EPTHIANURA : Epthianura. — The species of this belong to Australia, of which an 

 example is the White-fronted Epthianura, dark gray above, white beneath ; forehead, face, 

 and throat white. 



The American Warhlcrn are very numerous, about forty species being known in the United 

 States; far the greater part are migratory, as are their congeners in Europe, moving to the north 

 in spring and to the south in autumn ; most of them, however, spending the gay season among us, 

 and enlivening our spring and suiTimer landscapes by their lively sports, their cheerful labors, and 

 their delicious songs. They are embraced by naturalists under the family name of SylvicolidcB, 

 and ranged under several genera. 



