WARBLER. 161 



Inhabits America. — One of these was discovered in a Maple 

 swamp, in Cape May country, not far from the coast, and proved 

 to be a male. Manners unknown. 



209— YELLOW-BREASTED WARBLER. 



Sylvia Trichas, Ind. Om. ii. 519. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 28. pi. 85. 



Sylvia Marilandica, Maryland Yellow Throat, Am. Om. i. pi. 6. f. 1.— male. Id. ii. 



pi. 18. f. 4.— female. Edw. pi. 237. Petiv. Gaz. t. 6. f. 1. 

 Tnrdus Trichas, Lin. i. 293. Gm. Lin. i. 811. 

 Ficedula Marilandica, Bris. iii. 506. Id. 8vo. 448. 

 Le Figuier a Joues noires, Buf. v. 292. 

 Yellow-breasted Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 438. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 283. Shaw's Zool. 



x. 682. 



LENGTH five inches, breadth seven. Bill brown, with a few 

 scattered hairs at the base ; irides dark hazel ; plumage above deep 

 olive-brown ; forehead black, communicating with a large spot of 

 the same on each side of the head ; in the middle of which the eyes 

 are placed ; crown of the head reddish brown ; throat and breast 

 light yellow; belly and vent yellowish white; the latter more in- 

 clined to yellow ; quills and tail margined with yellowish olive ; the 

 last cuneiform ; legs dull flesh-colour. 



The female wants the black through the eye ; throat pale yellow ; 

 top of the head and sides fine pale grey. 



Young birds are greenish brown above, and pale yellow beneath. 



Inhabits the moist woods of Carolina, Maryland, and Pennsyl- 

 vania, in the summer; met with also in Brazil; frequents bushes 

 and low grounds, near rills of water ; quits the country in autumn. 

 The nest made the middle of May, in low bushes, formed of dry 

 twigs and a little moss ; the eggs four, white, dotted with black, or 

 reddish brown ; often hatches twice in a year, once as soon as it 

 arrives, which it does the middle of April, the other in July ; it 

 departs in autumn; the nest sometimes placed on the ground, among 



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