194 NORTH AXIEHICAX liUWH. 



leaves, dry grasses, and fibrous roots. Dr. (Jcrhardt informed me tliat tliesc 

 birds usually budd on or near tlie ground, under tussoclvs of grass in cIuu.ds 

 of buslics, or pinc-brusli, and tliat they lay from four to five eggs, from the 

 btii to the ITitli of May. 



The eggs of this species are of a beautiful, clear crystal-white, witli a few 

 bright reiUbsh-bnnvn spots around the larger end. Kggs from Ifacine Wis 

 and from Northern (Jeorgia, differ greatly in their relative si/e Tile foi- 

 nier measure .70 of an inch in lengtJi and .53 in breadth ; the latter Gli 

 by .4!). ' 



A single specimen of tliis species was obtained by Mr. Salvin, at Choctum 

 in Guatemala. ' 



Helminthophaga bachmani, Cahan. 



BACHHAirS WABBLEB. 



Sulvia horhmnni. An,. Orn. liiof;. 11, 18^4, 4,S3. pi. olxxxiii. Sulvu'ola b. R.cn. Vcrmi. 

 vorah. liox. Jleluwin I. An.. Syu. liinl« Am. II, 1841, 93, ,,1. cviii. _ Lkmbfvr 

 Av. Cuba, 1850, 3(i. ,,1. vi. n.. ]. IHnnlhm,. I, H„n. IhUnMh.phaga h. Cvb" 

 .lour. Ill, ]85.i, 475 (Culm, iu wiutn). - BAriJi., Minis X. An.. 18.58, 2r,.'; • Itev 175 

 -GuNi.LAcu, (.'ab. Jour. ISfil, ;i2(i (('ul,a, rare) ; l{i.p,.,-t. ,;r,, 232. ' " 



Sp. Char. Above olive-green, as also are tiie si.le.. of the head and neck Hind 

 head hnged with a.sh. A broad patch on the foreliead, bordered behind by black- ehin 

 stnpe fronj tin,, along the si.lo of the tln-oat, and the entire under part.., deep j-'ellow' 

 Tl. ,at and forepart of brea,.t black. A patch on the inner weh of the outer two tail- 

 feat..crs near the en.l white. Length, 4.50; wing, IX.- tail, 2.05. Finale with merely 

 a patch of dusky on the jugulum, and with the black bar on vertex obsolete. 



Hah. Coast of South Carolina and Georgia ; Cuba in winter. 



Habits. Bacliman's War) .ler is a comparatively new and but little kno^v,l 

 species of this interesting group. It was first discovered, July, 1833, by Key 

 Dr. John Bacliman, ti few miles from ("harleston, S. C, and in the same vi- 

 cinity he afterwards discovered a few others of l)oth .sexes. He described it 

 as a lively, active bird, gliding among the l)ranches of the thick 1)ushes, occa- 

 sionally mounting on tlie wing and seizing insects in the air, in the manner 

 of a Flycfitclier. The individual first obtained was an old female wliich 

 had, to all appearances, just reared a brooil of young. With tliis partial ex- 

 ception, nothing is known in relation to its liabits. As all tlie species of this 

 genas, without rny at present known exception, con,struct their nests u])on 

 the ground, it is a natural inference that it probably nests in a similar situa- 

 tion. 



Tlie Smithsonian Institution possesses but a single specimen of this lurd 

 obtained near Charleston, S. C. It was not observed by any naturalist of' 

 tlie several governmental ex].loring expeditions, and, so far as we are at 

 present informed, its only known ])laces of abode are Soutli Carolina and 

 Cuba, where it is extremely rare. Its nest and eggs still remain unknown. 



