4<d8 NASHVILLE WARBLER. 



notes very much resembled the breaking of small dry twigs, 

 or the striking of small pebbles of different sizes smartly 

 against each other for six or seven times, and loud enough to 

 be heard at the distance of thirty or forty yards. It was 

 some time before I could ascertain whether the sound pro- 

 ceeded from a bird or an insect. At length I discovered the 

 bird, and was not a little gratified at finding it an entire new 

 and hitherto undescribed species. I was also fortunate enough 

 to meet afterwards with two others exactly corresponding with 

 the first, all of them being males. These were shot in the 

 State of Tennessee, not far from Nashville. It had all the 

 agility and active habits of its family, the worm-eaters. 



The length of this species is four inches and a half, breadth, 

 seven inches ; the upper parts of the head and neck, light 

 ash, a little inclining to olive ; crown, spotted with deep 

 chestnut in small touches ; a pale yellowish ring round the 

 eye ; whole lower parts, vivid yellow, except the middle of 

 the belly, which is white ; back, yellow olive, slightly skirted 

 with ash ; rump and tail-coverts, rich yellow olive ; wings, 

 nearly black, broadly edged with olive ; tail, slightly forked, 

 and very dark olive ; legs, ash ; feet, dirty yellow ; bill, 

 tapering to a fine point, and dusky ash ; no white on wings 

 or tail ; eye, hazel. 



the last, it seems very rare ; Wilson saw only three ; Audubon, three 

 or four ; and a single individual was shot by the Overland Arctic Ex- 

 pedition. " The latter was killed hopping about the branches of a 

 tree, and emitting a creaking noise something like the whetting of a 

 saw." The nest does not yet seem to be known. — Ed. 



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