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was secured May 22, 1875, within a few yards of the spot where the first 

 was captured, in a low thicket of young blackberry bushes. It was 

 catching insects on the wing in a rather awkward manner, its actions 

 much resembling those of a Bluebird similarly engaged. 



Mr. Read seems to have been more fortunate in an opportunity of ob- 

 serving the habits of this species in summer than other writers. His 

 statement confirms that of Dr. TurnbuU in regard to this species spending 

 the summer in the latitude of Pennsylvania! He says (1. c. Fam. Vis.) : 



" This species is described as very rare, but for two summers past I have noticed ic us 

 very abnudant in a field of dense brambles, in Andover, Ashtabula couuty. Iq its 

 habits it resembles the preoeeding (Trichae marylandica), or rather the peculiar habits of 

 the genus are strikingly exhibited in this species. When first discovered, although 

 there was no difficulty in finding it, it was several days before I could obtain a specimen 

 fit for examination ; from its restless, fickle movements it was difficult to shoot, and 

 the first two or three obtained were torn completely to shreds from beiug within eight 

 or ten feet of the muzzle of the gun when shot. This was indeed the greatest difficulty, 

 for I could scarcely see one, so constantly were they at work beneath the thick foliage, 

 unless it were almost under my nose. Tkey undoubtedly nest with us In coiisiderable 

 numbers." 



The nest and eggs have never been discovered. 



Opoeoknis formosus (Wils.) Bd. 



lientiicliy %Varl>ler. 



Sylvia formom, Audubon, Orn. Biog, i, 1831, 19ti. 



Myiodiovteajormoaus, Audubon, B. Am., ii, le41, i9. 



Sylvicnla formosa, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 42; Proc Phila. Acad. Nat 8ci , vi, 1853, 

 395. 



Oporornis formosus, Whisaton, Ohio Agile. Eep. for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1661, 5; Food of 

 Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564 ; Reprint, 1875, 4.— Baird, Brewer, and 

 KiDGWAY, N, A. Birds, i, 1874, 293.— Lanodon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; Revised 

 List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist,, i, 1819, 112 ; Reprint, 6 ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 

 1879, 236. 



Kentucky Warbler, Kirtland, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 21S. 



Sylvia formosa, Wilson, Am. Orn, iii, 1811, 85. 

 Sylvicola formosa, Jakdine, "Ed. Wilson, 1832." 

 Mytodiochs formosus, Addubon, Syn., Iii39, 50. 

 Oporornis formosus, Baihd, Birds N. Am., 1858, 247. 



Clear olive green; entire under parts bright yellow, olive-shaded along sides ; crown 

 black, separated by a rich yellow superciliary line (which curls around the eye behind) 

 from a broad black bar running from bill below eye^ and thence down the side of the 

 neck ; wings and tail unmarked, glossed with olive ; feet flesh color ; 5f ; wing 2f-3 ; 

 tail 2-2i. Young birds have the black obscure, if not wanting; in the fall, the black 

 feathers la the crown of the adult are skirted with ash. 



Habitat, Eastern Province of the United Slates, especially in the Mississippi Valley ; 

 north *to the Connecticut Valley; west to Kansas and the Indian Territory; south through 

 Mexico and Central America. Cuba. 

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