212 WARBLER. 



Found in abundance in the moist woods along the Tennesee and 

 Cumberland Rivers, among the high grass and low bushes : in 

 Kentucky and Tennesee particularly. The nest in the middle of a 

 thick tuft of grass, made of light pith of weeds, lined with hair ; 

 eggs from four to six, white, sprinkled with reddish spots ; sits in 

 May ; notes loud, like Tweedle, tweedle, tweedle : appears the 

 middle of April, and departs on the approach of cold weather. 

 A quarrelsome bird. 



283— CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



Sylvia agilis, Connecticut Warbler, Amer. Orn. v. p. 64. pi. 39. f. 4. 

 Sylvia griseicollis, Vieill. Am. ii. pi. 87. Shaw's Zool. x. 732. 



LENGTH five inches and three quarters, extent eight. Upper 

 mandible pale brown, lower whitish ; irides dark hazel ; the whole 

 upper parts of the plumage rich yellow olive; wings dusky brown, 

 edged with olive ; throat dirty white, or pale ash-colour ; upper part 

 of the breast dull greenish yellow ; the rest of the under parts pure 

 rich yellow; legs long, slender, pale flesh-colour; round the eye a 

 narrow ring of yellowish white. 



Two birds, seemingly the same, have been met with, with the 

 throat of a dull buff-colour, instead of pale ash. These were both 

 females. . 



Inhabits the lower parts of Pennsylvania ; first discovered in the 

 state of Connecticut ; also in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, 

 among the low thickets. Nest, eggs, and breeding place unknown. 



I suspect the one quoted above from M. Vieillot, belongs to this 

 species, probably differing in sex or age. 



In this the bill is pale ; plumage above brownish green ; throat 

 grey ; breast, sides, and under tail coverts yellow ; belly white ; tail 

 even at the end, slaty grey beneath, the four side feathers white at 

 the tips ; legs dusky. 



