HEMLOCK WARBLER. 403 
_ This species is four inches and three quarters in length; the upper 
parts, a rich, yellow olive; front, cheeks, and chin, yellow, ‘also the 
sides of the neck; breast and belly, pale yellow, streaked with black 
or dusky; vent, plain pale yellow; wings, black; first and second 
row of coverts, broadly tipped with pale yellowish white; tertials, the 
same; the rest of the quills, edged with whitish; tail, black, hand- 
somely rounded, edged with pale olive; the two exterior feathers, on 
each side, white on the inner vanes:from the middle to the tips, and 
edged on the outer side with white; bill, dark brown; legs and feet, 
purple brown; soles, yellow ; eye, dark hazel. ; 
This was a male. The female I have never seen. 
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HEMLOCK WARBLER.—SYLVIA PARUS. — Fie. 184. 
SYLVICOLA PARUS.—Jaroine. 
Sylvia parus, Bonap. Synop. p. 82. 
Tus is another nondescript, first met with in the Great Pine 
Swamp, Pennsylvania. From observing it almost always among the 
branches of the hemlock trees, [ have designated it by that appella- 
tion, the markings of its plumage not affording me a peculiarity suffi- 
cient fora specific name. It is a most lively and active little bird, 
climbing among the twigs, and hanging like a Titmouse on the 
branches ; but possessing all the external characters of the Warblers. 
It has a few low and very sweet notes, at which times it stops and re- 
peats them for a short time, then darts about as before. It shoots 
after flies to a considerable distance; often begins at the lower 
branches, and hunts with great regularity and admirable’ dexterity, 
upwards to the top, then flies off to the next tree, at the lower branches 
of which it commences hunting upwards as before. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and eight inches in ex- 
tent;. bill, black above, pale below; upper parts of the plumage, 
black, thinly streaked with yellow olive; head above, yellow, dotted 
with black ; line from the nostril over the eye, sides of the neck, and 
whole breast, rich yellow; belly, paler, streaked with dusky; round 
the breast, some small streaks of blackish; wing, black, the greater 
coverts, and next superior row, broadly tipped with white, forming 
two broad bars across the wing; primaries, edged with olive, tertials, 
with white ; tail-coverts, black, tipped with olive; tail, slightly forked, 
black, and edged with olive; the three exterior feathers altogether 
white on their inner vanes; legs and feet, dirty yellow; eye, dark 
hazel; a‘ few bristles at the mouth; bill, not notched. 
Fig. 184 was a male. Of the female I can at present give no ac- 
count. 
