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281 —NASHVILLE WARBLER. 



Sylvia ruficapilla, Nashville Warbler, Amer. Om.m. pi. 27. f. 3. Shaw's Zool. x. 622. 



LENGTH four inches, extent seven. Bill finely pointed, dusky; 

 irides hazel ; head and neck above light ash, inclining to olive ; 

 crown deep chestnut in small touches ; back yellow olive, slightly 

 skirted with ash ; rump and upper tail coverts rich yellow olive ; 

 wings nearly black, broadly edged with olive ; round the eye a pale 

 yellowish ring ; under parts vivid yellow ; middle of the belly white ; 

 tail slightly forked, dark olive ; legs ash-colour; neither wings nor 

 tail marked with white. 



Two or three of these birds killed in the state of Tennesee, not 

 far from Nashville, had all the agility of the Worm-eater. The note 

 very singular, much resembling the breaking of small dry twigs, or 

 striking of small pebbles against each other, six or seven times, and 

 to be heard at the distance of thirty or forty yards. 



282— KENTUCKY WARBLER. 



Sylvia formosa, Kentucky Warbler, Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 25. f. 3. Shaw's Zool. x. 683. 



LENGTH five inches and a half, extent eight. Above olive- 

 green ; a line over the eye, and partly under it, and the whole of the 

 under parts of the bird a rich brilliant yellow; head slightly crested, 

 the crown deep black, towards the hindhead spotted light ash- 

 colour ; lores black ; and a spot of the same, growing broader below, 

 and curving down the neck on each side ; tail nearly even, rich 

 olive-green, the inner webs of that, and the wings dusky; legs flesh- 

 colour, almost transparent. The female wants the black beneath 

 the eye, and the greater part of the black on the crown, being in 

 those parts yellowish. 



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