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the head and the throat grey instead of black, and the white bands on the 

 head narrower and less extended. 



Length to end of tail 4 inches, to end of wings 3§; extent of wings 1\. 



BACHMAN'S SWAMP-WARBLER. 



f Helinaia Bachmanii, Jiud. 



PLATE CVIIL— Male and Female. 



My friend Bachman has the merit of having discovered this pretty little 

 species of Warbler, and to him I have the pleasure of acknowledging my 

 obligations for the pair which you will find represented in the plate, accom- 

 panied with a figure of one of the most beautiful of our southern flowers, 

 originally drawn by my friend's sister, Miss Martin. I myself have never 

 had the good fortune to meet with any individuals of this interesting Sylvia, 

 respecting which little is as yet known, its discoverer having only procured 

 a few specimens of both sexes, without being able to find a nest. The first 

 obtained was found by him a few miles from Charleston, in South Carolina, 

 in July 1833, while I was rambling over the crags of Labrador. According 

 to my amiable friend, it was "a lively active bird, gliding among the branches 

 of thick bushes, occasionally mounting on the wing and seizing insects in 

 the air in the manner of a Flycatcher. It was an old female that had to all 

 appearance just reared a brood of young." Shortly after, several were seen 

 in the same neighbourhood; and we may still expect an account of its man- 

 ners, migration, and breeding, although not yet discovered. 



Bachman's Warbler, Sylvia Bachmanii. Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 483. 



Adult Male. 



Bill rather long, slightly bent towards the tip, subulato-conical, extremely 

 acute, the edges sharp and inflected. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, half- 

 closed above by an arched membrane. The general form slender. Feet of 

 ordinary length; tarsus slender, compressed, anteriorly scutellate, sharp 

 behind; toes free, the hind toe strong, the two lateral nearly equal, the 

 middle one much longer; claws slender, arched, compressed, acute. 



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