PINE-SWAMP WARBLER. \ 393 
PINE-SWAMP WARBLER.—SYLVIA PUSILLA. — Fie. 181. 
VIREO SPHAGNOSA. —Janvine.* 
Sylvia sphagnosa, Bonap. Synop. p. 85. 
Turs little bird is, for the first time, figured or described. Its fa- 
vorite haunts are in the deepest and gloomiest pine and hemlock swamps 
of our mountainous regions, where every tree, trunk, and fallen log, 
is covered with a luxuriant coat of moss, that even mantles over the 
surface of the ground, and prevents the sportsman from avoiding a 
thousand holes,. springs, and swamps, into which he is insensibly 
plunged. Of the nest of this bird I am unable to speak. I found it 
associated with the Blackburnian Warbler, the Golden-crested Wren, 
Ruby-crowned Wren, Yellow-Rump, and others of that description, in 
such places as I have described, about the middle of May. It seemed 
as active in flycatching as in searching for other insects, darting 
nimbly about among the branches, and flirting its wings; but I could 
not perceive that it had either note or song. I shot three, one male 
and two females, Ihave no doubt that they breed in those solitary 
swamps, as well as many other of their associates. : 
The Pine-Swamp Warbler is four inches and a quarter long,and seven 
inches and a quarter in extent; bill, black, not notched, but furnished 
with bristles; upper parts, a deep green olive, with slight bluish 
reflections, particularly on the edges of the tail and on the head ; wings, 
dusky, but so broadly edged with olive preen-as to appear wholly of 
that tint ; immediately below the primary coverts, there 1s a single trian- 
gular spot of yellowish white; no other part of the wings is white; 
the three exterior tail-feathers, with a spot of white on their inner vanes ; 
the tail is slightly forked; from the nostrils over the eye, extends a 
fine line of white, and the lower eyelid is touched with the same tint; 
lores, blackish; sides of the neck and auriculars, green olive ;, whole 
lower parts, pale yellow ochre, with atinge of greenish; duskiest on 
the throat; legs, long and flesh colored. ~ 
The plumage of the female differs in nothing from that of the male. 
* This species seems evidently a Vireo. Bonaparte thus. observes, in his No- 
~menc¢lature, and we have used his name :—“ A new species, called by a preoccu- 
ee name, but altered in the Index to that of leucoptera, which is used for one of 
ieillot’s species, and was, therefore, changed to that of palustris, by Stephens ; 
but as this also is preoccupied, I propose for it the name of S. sphagnosa.” —Ep, 
