216 WARBLER. 



black, rounded, edged pale olive, the two outer feathers white on 

 the inner webs from the middle to the tips, and edged on the outer 

 with white. 



Inhabits America, taken in the Blue Mountains; feeds on flies; 

 its song a feeble screak, three or four times repeated : only a male 

 taken ; the female has not been observed. 



290— HEMLOCK WARBLER. 



Sylvia Parus, Hemlock Warbler, Am. Om. v. p. 114. pi. 44. f. 3. Shaw's Zool. x. 727. 



THIS bird is five inches and a half long, and extends eight. 

 Bill black above, pale below, at the mouth a few bristles, no notch 

 at the end; eye dark hazel ; upper parts of the plumage black, thinly 

 streaked with yellow olive ; head above yellow, dotted with black ; 

 line from the nostril, over the eye, sides of the neck, and whole 

 breast, rich yellow ; belly paler, streaked with dusky ; round the 

 breast some small blackish streaks ; wings black, with two broad 

 white bars across the coverts ; primaries edged with olive, tertials 

 with white; tail coverts black, tipped with olive; tail slightly forked, 

 black, edged olive, the three exterior feathers white on their inner 

 webs ; legs dirty yellow. 



The female unknown. Met with first in the great Pine swamps, 

 Pennsylvania, chiefly among the Hemlock Trees ; is a most lively 

 and active species ; has a few low and very sweet notes, which now 

 and then it stops, and repeats for a short time, and then darts after 

 flies as before. This and the four last are supposed to be hitherto 

 undescribed. 



291.- BEARDED WARBLER. 



LENGTH nearly five inches. Bill dusky ; head and neck pale 

 ash-colour, inclining to brown on the back, rump, and tail coverts ; 



