406 YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. 
the first two seasons ; the female differs very little from this, chiefly in 
the green olive being more inclined to ash. ; 
This is one of our summer birds, and, from the circumstance of being 
found off Hispaniola in November, is supposed to winter in the islands. 
They leave Pennsylvania about the 20th of September ; are dexterous 
flycatchers, though ranked by European naturalists among the Warblers, 
having the bill notched and beset with long bristles. 
In its present dress the Redstart, makes its appearance in Pennsy]- 
vania about the middle or 20th of ‘April ; and, from being heard chanting 
its few sprightly notes, has been supposed by some of our own natural- 
ists to be a different species. I have, however, found both parents of 
the same nest in the same dress nearly ; the female, eggs and nest, as 
well as the notes of the male, agreeing exactly with those of theRed- 
start, — evidence sufficiently satisfactory to me. 
Head above, dull slate ; throat, pale buff; sides of the breast and 
four exterior tail feathers, fine yellow, tipt with dark brown ; wings and 
pack, greenish olive ; tail-coverts, blackish, tipt with ash; belly, dull 
white ; no white or yellow on the wings; legs, dirty purplish brown: 
bill, black. ne 
The Redstart extends very generally over the United States, having 
myself seen it on the borders of Canada, and also on the Mississippi 
erritory.| 
This species has the constant habit of flirting its expanded tail from 
ide to side,.as it runs along the branches, with its head levelled almost 
in a line with its body; occasionally shooting off after winged insects, 
ina downward zigzag direction, and, with admirable dexterity, snapping 
its bill as it descends. Its notes are few and feeble, repeated at short 
intervals, as it darts among the foliage; having at some times a re- 
semblance to the sounds, sic, sic, saic ; at others, weesy, weesy, weesy ; 
which last seems to be its call for the female, while the former appears 
to be its most common note. 
YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER.—SYLVIA CORONATA. — Fig. 187. 
Edw, 255.— Aret. Zool. ii. p. 400, No. 288. 
SYLVICOLA CORONATA. — Swainson. — WINTER PLUMAGE. 
Sylvia coronata, Bonap. Synop. p.78.— Sylvicola coronata, North. Zool. ii. p. 210. 
I must again refer the reader to Fig. 80 for this bird in his perfect 
colors; Fig. 187 exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives to us, 
from the north, early in September ; the former shows him in his spring 
and summer dress, as he visits us, from the south, about the 20th of 
March, These birds remain with us, in Pennsylvania, from September, 
until the season becomes severely cold, feeding on the berries of the 
red cedar ;-and, as December’s snows come on, they retreat to the 
lower countries of the Southern States, where, in February, I found 
them in great numbers, among the myrtles, feeding on the berries of 
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