162 WARBLER. 



dry leaves, sometimes arched over, with a hole for entrance ; and is 

 composed of dry leaves, and fine grass ; feeds on insects ; the note 

 may be compared to the word Whitititiee repeated. 



A. — La Fauvette a poitrine jaune de la Lonisiane, Buf.v. 162. PI. enl. 709. 

 Le Contre-maitre vert a poitrine d'Or, Voy. d' Azara, iii. No. 155. 

 Orange-thighed Warbler, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 284. Gen. Syn. iv. 439. A. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill black ; forehead to the 

 middle of the crown black, this continues between the bill and eye, 

 and passing beneath, finishes in a broad patch behind it ; from eye 

 to eye, across the crown, a band of white ; upper parts of the body 

 olive, the under yellow, inclining to orange on the sides ; tail rounded; 

 legs reddish. 



Inhabits Louisiana, and is a very beautiful species. 



One from Georgia had the lower belly and thighs reddish burl- 

 colour, and named the Black Cheek ; the irides brown ; across the 

 middle of the crown a transverse streak of white, between the black 

 and the brown, taking in the eyes, and passing above them, bounded 

 the black behind, but not so broad as in the JPl. enlum. 



The female wants the black on the head, and the young birds are 

 like the females. In young cocks of the first summer, the band on 

 the head is more or less brown, and the black not perfect, having only 

 a small oval spot of black, otherwise no black on the head. The 

 female has a pale streak over the eye, and the whole of the under 

 parts yellow. 



This is common in the large bays in the lower parts, frequenting 

 thick branches, or brooks in the summer, coming about the middle 

 of March, and sings prettily on its first arrival. Mr. Abbot says, 

 he once saw it in January, the only time he has met with any at that 

 season. The nest is generally built in a bush, over the water, the 

 beginning of May, formed of dried or rotten leaves, lined with pine 

 straw, and small fibres of plants ; the egg blush-colour, nearly 



