374 KENTUCKY WARBLER. 



specks of reddish. I observed her sitting early in May. This 

 species is seldom seen among the high branches ; but loves 

 to frequent low bushes and cane swamps, and is an active, 

 sprightly bird. Its notes are loud, and in threes, resembling 

 tweedle, tiveedle, tweedle. It appears in Kentucky from the 

 south about the middle of April ; and leaves the territory of 

 New Orleans on the approach of cold weather ; at least I was 

 assured that it does not remain there during the winter. It 

 appeared to me to be a restless, fighting species ; almost 

 always engaged in pursuing some of its fellows ; though this 

 might have been occasioned by its numbers, and the particular 

 season of spring, when love and jealousy rage with violence 

 in the breasts of the feathered tenants of the grove ; who 

 experience all the ardency of those passions no less than their 

 lord and sovereign, man. 



The Kentucky warbler is five inches and a half long, and 

 eight inches in extent ; the upper parts are an olive green ; 

 line over the eye, and partly under it, and whole lower parts, 

 rich brilliant yellow ; head, slightly crested, the crown, deep 

 black, towards the hind part spotted with light ash ; lores 

 and spot curving down the neck, also black ; tail, nearly even 

 at the end, and of a rich olive green ; interior vanes of that 

 and the wings, dusky ; legs, an almost transparent pale flesh 

 colour. 



The female wants the black under the eye, and the greater 

 part of that on the crown, having those parts yellowish. 

 This bird is very abundant in the moist woods along the 

 Tennesee and Cumberland rivers. 



