170 WARBLER. 



nearly white, with a dash of dusky from the tip on the outer web, 

 narrowing upwards ; giving the appearance of the inner web being 

 white ; the outer brown, growing broader towards the tip ; legs 

 brown. 



In the female the green is more dull, the feathers edged with ash- 

 colour ; and the yellow parts are paler. 



Inhabits thickets and shady places in the uninhabited parts of 

 Carolina. — From the description of the late Mr. Hntchins, a similar 

 one, if not the same, inhabits Hudson's Bay, by the name of Mo- 

 chia a naka shish. In this the three outer tail feathers are chiefly 

 white, but dusky on the outer web, the four middle plain dusky. 



The female much the same in colour, but without the black hood. 

 The young male resembles most the female, but is inclined to brown 

 above ; forehead and under parts yellow, passing from the forehead 

 through the eye, ending in two streaks on the ears ; from the gape, 

 on each side, a whisker of dusky black; and across the breast a 

 curved mark of the same ; down the belly a dull mottled pale ferru- 

 ginous band. 



It is seldom seen in Pennsylvania, and the Northern States; but 

 through the whole extent of country south of Maryland, from the 

 Atlantic to the Mississippi; partial to low situations, where there is 

 thick underwood, among canes, in the state of Tennesee, perpetually 

 in pursuit of winged insects, when it utters three loud, and not un- 

 musical notes, like Twee, twee, twitehee ; is very active. The nest 

 neat and compact, chiefly in forks of small bushes, composed of 

 moss and flax, or broken hemp, lined with hair, and sometimes 

 feathers ; the eggs five, greyish white, marked with reddish spots at 

 the larger end. Is migratory, and rarely seen about Philadelphia; 

 probably winters in Mexico, or the West India Islands. 



