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PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 



Sylvia frotonotarius, Lath. 



PLATE III. Vol. I. p. 22. 



Dr Bachman informs me that he has watched this species for hours 

 at a time, when on the borders of streams, and observed it to seize in- 

 sects on wing by gliding through the air after them, but never heard 

 it click its bill, as is usual with Flycatchers. It breeds in South Caro- 

 lina, and he saw a pair with four young ones near Charleston, on the 1st 

 of June 1836. 



NASHVILLE WARBLER. 



Sylvia rubricapilla, Wilson. 



PLATE LXXXIX. Vol. I. p. 450. 



This species, which was very rare in the United States in Wilson's 

 time, is now no longer so. As I was advancing toward the Texas in 

 April, I found it on its way eastward in considerable numbers, travel- 

 ling only by day, stopping about an hour before sunset, and apparently 

 spending the night in the low bushes along the sea-shore. It is not 

 uncommon in Maine, or in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia. A few were procured by us in Labrador, and Dr Richardson 

 mentions it as an occasional straggler in the Fur Countries. One spe- 

 cimen only was procured in the woods of Cumberland House. All my 

 endeavours to discover the nest, or to ascertain the localities in which 

 it breeds, have proved unsuccessful. 



