WARBLER. 185 



243 —YELLOW-BACKED WARBLER. 



The FEMALE. 



Sylvia pusilla, Ind. Om. ii. 520. 



Motacilla pusilla, Gm. Lin. i. 960. 



Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 28. f. 3. — female. 



Sylvia torquata, Vieill. Am. ii. pi. 99. 



Figuier cendre de la Caroline, Buf. v. 301. PL enl. 731. 1. 



Yellow-backed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 440. Shaw's Zool. x. 611. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill dark above, pale be- 

 neath ; plumage above cinereous blue; between the shoulders olive 

 yellow ; throat and breast yellow ; belly white ; ends of the wing 

 coverts the same, forming a bar ; end of the tail very pale ; legs pale 

 brown. This is the female, 



The MALE. 



Parus Americanus, Ind. Om. ii. 571. Lin.'i. 341. Gm. Lin.i. 1007. 



Ficedula Carolinensis cinerea, Bris. iii. 522. Id. 8vo. i. 452. 



Sylvia pusilla, Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, Am. Orn. iii. pi. 28. f. 3. 



Le Bee en poin(;on a poitrine doree, Voy. d'Azara, iii. 102 ? 



Finch Creeper, Cates. Car. i. pi. 64. 



Creeping Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 558. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 326. 



This, which is the male, differs in a few particulars : over and 

 under the eye is a white spot ; on the wings two bars of white ; 

 across the throat a clouded brown bar, in some dusky, in others dark 

 blue; on the sides a few reddish spots; two middle tail feathers 

 cinereous blue, the others edged with it ; the two outer marked with 

 a white spot within at the tip ; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Carolina, and other parts of America, for the most part 

 all the year ; also in Canada, where it chiefly breeds, and departs 

 in autumn ; said to chirp like a grasshopper. Frequents the oak 

 swamps, and woods of Georgia, but chiefly in summer; has a loud 



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