TENNESSEE WARBLER. 243 
TENNESSEE WARBLER. —SYLVIA PEREGRINA —Fic. 117. 
Peale's Museum, No. 7787. 
VERMIVORA PEREGRINA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia peregrina, Bonap. Synop. p. 87.— Sylvicola (Vermivora) peregrina. 
Seen eT a et Werth abel Ti we EE I BRREe 
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Turs plain, little bird has hitherto remained unknown. [I first found 
it on the banks of Cumberland River, in the state of Tennessee, and 
suppose it to be rare, having since met with only two individuals of 
the same species. It was hunting nimbly. among the young leaves, 
and, like all the rest of the family of worm-eaters, to which, by its bill, 
it evidently belongs, seemed to partake a good deal of, the habits of 
the Titmouse. Its notes were few and weak; and its stomach, on 
dissection, contained small green caterpillars, and a few winged 
insects. ‘ 
As this species is so very rare in the United States, it is most 
probably a native of a more southerly climate, where it may be 
equally numerous with any of the rest of its genus. The small Ceru- 
lean Warbler, (Fig. 81,) which, in Pennsylvania, and almost all over 
the Atlantic states, is extremely rare, I found the most numerous of 
its tribe in Tennessee and West Florida; and the Carolina Wren, 
ee 51,) which is also scarce to the northward of Maryland, is abun- 
ant through the whole extent of country from Pittsburgh to New 
Orleans. ‘ ; 
Particular species of birds, like different nations of men, have their 
congenial climes. and favorite countries; but wanderers are common 
to both ; some in search of better fare, some of adventures, others led 
by curiosity, and many driven by storms and accident. 
‘ The Tennessee Warbler is four inches and three quarters long, and 
eight inches in extent; the back, rump, and tail-coverts are of a rich 
yellow olive; lesser wing-coverts, the same; wings, deep dusky, 
edged broadly with yellow olive; tail, forked, olive, relieved with 
dusky ; cheeks and upper part of the head, inclining to light bluish, 
and tinged with olive ; line from the nostrils over the eye, pale yellow, 
fading into white; throat and breast, pale cream color; belly and 
vent, white; legs, purplish brown; bill, pointed, and thicker at the 
base than those of the Sylvia genus generally are; upper mandible, 
dark dusky ; lower, somewhat paler; eye, hazel, ; 
The female differs little, in the color of her plumage, from the male; 
Seer line over the eye is more obscure, and the olive not of so 
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