SVLVICOLID.K — TIIIO WAUItLKUS. j(,Y 



yellow; tho nnal n'jrion i.alor; tiif sides tiiifrcd with olivo. A broml yellowish-whiU. 

 ring i-oiiii(l the (•>■.,■ ; tlic loivs ycil,,wisli ; no .siiiuTciliiiry .stiij).'. The inner .mI-cs oI' iIr. 

 tail-foatiiiTs mai-nincd willi dull wiiilc. FnunU: similar, l.nt dnlicr; llie under parts paler, 

 luid with niiMv wliih- I, lit little traee of the red ol'tlie crown. Length, -{.(m ; wini;-, 'J.-l-J- 

 tail, 'IM'i. ' ' ' "' 



^ II.vii. Eastern Province of North Aniericii; rare in the Middle Province (Fort Tejon, 

 ('al., and Hast ILunholdt Mountains, Xev.) ; Ureeuland (RKiNiiAiiin) ; Oaxaca (F.^hiinuy 

 and August, .Sci.atku) ; Xalapa and Cordova (Scl.vtku; ; Urizaba (winter, Su.miciikastJ. 

 Not re(.'orde(l IVoni West Indies. 



It is an intoroHtino fact, tlitit, in this specios, we fiml in tlio yullow ii tun- 

 (leiicy to liocmiio moio iind moru rustiictcd its wo puss wostwiird. In adult 

 sprinjr males tVoin the Atlantic Status this color invades the cheeks, ami 

 oven stains the lores and eyelids. In two adtilt sprinj,' males from Chiciino 

 it is coiiHned within the maxilhe, the cheeks l)eini>- clear iish, and the h.nil 

 streak and orbital rin<i- imre white ; while in tm adtilt male (iitittimnal, how- 

 ever) from the East Httmlxddt Mountains (Nevada, Xo. o;!,:l,")4, U. S.'ceol. 

 Plxpl, 40th par.) the yellow is restricted to a medial strij), even the sides 

 of the throat hein-v ashy ; the ash invades the back too, tilmost to the rtiiiip, 

 while in P^astern specimens it extends no iarther hack than the nap' A 

 male (No. 10,(ioG, J. Xantns) from Fort Tejon, Cal., is niiicli like the Xe- 

 vada specimen, thouyh the peculiar features of the remote Western form are 

 less exiiooerated ; it is ahotit intermediate hetweeii the other si)ecimen and 

 the specimens from ('hica-i'o. As there is not, unfortunately, a sulliciuntly 

 large series of these birds Ijefore us, we cannot say to what extent these 

 variations with lonoitude tire constant. 



Hahits. The Niishville Wtirbler iippi-ars to be a specios of somewhat 

 irregular occurrence ; at one time it will bo rather abundant, thotigh never 

 very numerous, and at another time comparatively rare. For a long while otir 

 older naturalists regtirtled it as ii very rare species, and knew nothing as to 

 its habits or distribution. Wilson, who first met witii it in 1811, nevei^found 

 more tiiaii three specimens, which he procured near Xashville, Tenn. Audu- 

 bon only met with three or four, and these he obtained in Louisiiina ;ind 

 Kentucky. These and a few others in Titian I'etile's collection, supposed to 

 have been obtained in rennsylvaniti, were all he ever saw. Mr. Xuttall at 

 first reganled it as very rare, itiid its a Southern species. In that writer's later 

 edition he speaks of it as a bird having- a Xorthern distribution as far as 

 Labradt)r. Dr. Kichardson records the occurrence ol'a single straggler in the 

 fur country. So liir as known, it occurs tis ti niignint in all the States 

 east of the Mis.souri, and is a summer resident north of tlie 4(lth parallel. 

 It probably breeds in the high ground tjf Pennsylvania, though this ftict is 

 inferred rather than known. It breeds in Connecticut iind Mti-ssachusetts, 

 and in Maine in the vicinity of Calais, being more abundant there than any- 

 where else, as far i.s has been a.scertained. 



^ Two individiuils of this si)ecies have been taken in (Jreenland: one at 

 Gotltluiab, iu 1835 ; iind the other at Fiskentesset, August 31, 1840. 



