200 WARBLER. 



the feathers edged with brownish green ; above the eye a whitish 

 streak ; throat white; under parts of the body brownish grey. 



Inhabits Louisiana. By some thought to be a Variety of our 

 Blackcap, but M. Vieillot assures us, that it is a different, and a 

 distinct species. 



267— LOUISIANE WREN. 



Sylvia Ludoviciana, Ind. Orn. ii. 548. 150. 



Motacilla Carolinensis, Great Wren, Bartr. Tr. 289. 



Le Tout voix, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 151. 



Marsh Wren, Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 12. f. 4. 



Louisiane Wren, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 244. Shaw's Zool. x. 713. 



NEARLY five inches long. Bill more stout and longer than in 

 the Common Wren, a trifle curved, pale brown ; tip and under 

 mandible pale ; top of the head deep brown ; down the middle 

 tinged with chestnut ; body above, wings, and tail, undulated across 

 as in the Common Wren ; under parts of the body buff-colour; chin 

 and belly nearly white ; head mottled on the sides with whitish 

 and brown; over the eye a dusky white streak, passing down the 

 whole of the neck on each side ; beginning of the back deep brown, 

 almost black, dotted with white ; legs long, stout, and brown. — 

 Described from a specimen in the collection of Mr. Francillon. The 

 female is paler, and the tail somewhat shorter. 



Mr. Bartram's bird has the throat and breast clay-colour ; and 

 in a drawing from Mr. Abbot, of Savannah, those parts are deep 

 yellow, nearly rufous. 



Inhabits various parts of America, and as far as Paraguay, and 

 the River Plata, where the French call it Tout voix, as its song is 

 said to be very little inferior to that of the Nightingale. Is a restless 

 species, for the most part seen sitting with its tail erect on small 

 twigs of trees ; but rarely or never in the woods, or near habitations. 



