SYLVIU)LID.E — TIFK WARULERS. jg^r 



Species. 



Common Characters. Colors i.laiii. Above olivaceous, beneath nearly white. 

 Xo .spots or bauds on win^f or tail. 



H. vermivorus. Abov olive-green. Head yellowish, with a black stripe 

 above and one behind each eye. Tail ronuded. ll,ih. Jvistern Provinee oC 

 United States; south to Cosia Riea ; Cuba, (/lehinf/icnis.) 

 H. swainsoni. Above dull olive-given, tinged with brown. Stripes on 

 the head somewhat as iu the last, but reddish-b.-owu : the median light 

 stripe on the .'rown seareely visible. Tail slightly forked. Uub. South 

 Carolina and Georgia; Cuba (very rare). (/le/inaia.) 



Helmitherus vermivorus, Bonap. 



WOBH-EATiao SWAMP WAKBLER. 



. Afotcu:ma vcrmivam, Omki.. Syst. Nat. I, 17ti,s, <..5l. ' Siilvia vermhvra, Lath. Ind Orn 

 II. iryo, 49!). - W„.s. Ill, pi. .xxiv, fig. -t. -Ain. Orn. 15iug. I, pi. xxxiv. .','ylvicola 

 wnnu'ura, Uien. Ildiiun,,, venuivum, Afi.. IJir.ls Am. II, pi. r.v. — Li;mim;yf,, Av. Cuba, 

 18r)0, 3,-), pi. vi, lig. I. Ihlmithenis irrmironis, n„s. ; Caii. : lUllil), liiril.s \ Am' 

 18,08, 252; l{,.v. 17!». -S,r,Ari:i!, P. Z. tS. ls,-,!», :(,;:; (Xalapa). - In. Catal. 1801, 28, 

 no. 175. — Sci.ArKli & Sai.V[N, Ibis, I, 185!t, 11 (Cuatrmala) ; .'ab. Jour. 1800 a-'9 

 (Co.sta Ki.a); lb. 185(i (Cuba). - Ui-xuLAeu, Cab. .lour. 1801, 320 (Cuba ; somewhat 

 rare), k cniuuum pniiLs-i/lvania,, Box., GossK, U. Jumaiea, 1817,150. Ildniithcrus 

 vn,jr„tm-!us, Kak. .1. de Phys. 88. 1819, 417. - IIaRTLAUB ; Vermivom fulclMpiUu, 

 SwAiNsoN, Uirds, II, 1S37, 245. 



Sp. Char. Bill nearly as long as the head : upper parts generally rather clear olive- 

 green. Head with foiu- black stripes an.l three brownish-yellow ones^ namely, a black one 

 on each side of the crown and nne from behind the eye (extending, in fact, a little anterior 

 to It), a broad.M- nu-dian yollov one on the crown, and a superciliary from the bill. Under 

 parts pale browid.sh-yellow, tinged with bull' across the breast and with olivaceous on the 

 .sides Tail unspotted. Female nearly similar. Length, o.oO ; w=ng, 3.0t) ; tail 2 3o 



In antinnnal speeiiuciis the light stripes on the head are deeper bulf than in sprin-. 



IIab. Eastern Province of United States (rather Southern); Southeastern Mexico^ina- 

 teinala; Cuba; Costa Rica; V, : agua ; Oriiiaba (winter, Sr.MiciiiiAsT); Yucatan (Lawrkxck). 



Habits. Much reimiins to be ascertained iu regard to the history, habits, and 

 distril)ution of this iuterestiiifr .species. So l:-v as is now known it is hardly 

 anywhere very coniiiion (hiring tiie bn-edino-season. Yet its abundance anil 

 wide distribution as a nuo;rant (birin.ir the winter months in various extended 

 localities appear to warrant the belief that it must be correspondingly abun- 

 dant in summer in localities tlitit have escaped our attentioti. It has" been oc- 

 casionally met with in the Ceiitrtil and Southern States, as hir west as Eastern 

 Mexico, and as far to the north as Southetistern Xew Vork. Specimens have 

 been procured fi'om Cuba, Mexico, Central America, and the northern portions 

 of South America. It is a, regular winter visiti-t of Jamaica, whither it goes 

 in tke autumn in considtMiible numbers, and is \ery widely dilfused. 



It reaches IVniisylvania about the middle of ^iay, ami leaves in Septeni- 

 Iter. Wilson noticed a pair feeding their young about the iT.th of .Tune. 



