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and the yellow much deeper, extending farther on the back ; 

 its manners, and the country it inhabits, are also different. 



This species is five inches and a half long, and eight and 

 a half in extent ; the head, neck, and whole lower parts (except 

 the vent), are of a remarkably rich and brilliant yellow, slightly 

 inclining to orange ; vent, white ; back, .scapulars, and lesser 

 wing-coverts, yellow olive; wings, rump, and tail-coverts, a 

 lead blue ; interior vanes of the former, black ; tail nearly 

 even, and black, broadly edged with blue ; all the feathers, 

 except the two middle ones, are marked on their inner vanes, 

 near the tip, with a spot of white ; bill, long, stout, sharp- 

 pointed, and wholly black ; eyes, dark hazel ; legs and feet, a 

 leaden grey. The female differs in having the yellow and 

 blue rather of a duller tint ; the inferiority, however, is scarcely 

 noticeable. 



WORM-EATING WARBLER. {Sylvia vermivom.) 



PLATE XXIV.— Fig. 4. 



Arct. Zool. p. 406, No. 300. — Edw. 305. — Lath. ii. 499. — Le demi-fiu mangeur de 

 vers, Buff. v. 325.— Peale's Museum, No. 6848. 



VERMIVORA PENNSYLVANICA.—&VJAm&ox* 



Ficedula Pennsylvania, Briss. i. 457. — Sylvia (sub-genus Dacnis, Cuv.) Pennsyl- 

 vania, Bonap. Synop. p. 86 . — The Worm-eating Warbler, And. pi. 34, male 

 and female ; Om. Biog. i. p. 177. 



This is one of the nimblest species of its whole family, inhabit- 

 ing the same country with the preceding, but extending its 

 migrations much farther north. It arrives in Pennsylvania 

 about the middle of May, and leaves us in September. I have 

 never yet met with its nest, but have seen them feeding their 

 young about the 25th of June. This bird is remarkably fond 

 of spiders, darting about wherever there is a probability of 



* This species is the type of Mr Swainson's genus Vermivora. The 

 specific title is therefore lost, and I see none "better than the restoration 

 of Brisson's old one. — Ed. 



