\60 CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



CONNECTICUT WAEBLER. {Sylvia agilis) 



PLATE XXXIX.— Fig. 4. 



SYLVLCOLA AGILIS.— Jardine.* 

 Sylvia agilis, Bonap. Synop. p. 84 ; Nomenclature, p. 163. 



This is a new species, first discovered in the State of Connec- 

 ticut, and twice since met with in the neighbourhood of 

 Philadelphia. As to its notes or nest, I am altogether unac- 

 quainted with them. The different specimens I have shot cor- 

 responded very nearly in their markings ; two of these were 

 males, and the other undetermined, but conjectured also to be 

 a male. It was found in every case among low thickets, but 

 seemed more than commonly active, not remaining for a 

 moment in the same position. In some of my future rambles 

 I may learn more of this solitary species. 



Length, five inches and three quarters ; extent, eight 

 inches ; whole upper parts, a rich yellow olive ; wings, dusky 

 brown, edged with olive; throat, dirty white or pale ash; 

 upper part of the breast, dull greenish yello\/ ; rest of the 

 lower parts, a pure rich yellow ; legs, long, slender, and of a 

 pale flesh colour ; round the eye, a narrow ring of yellowish 

 white ; upper mandible, pale brown ; lower, whitish ; eye, 

 dark hazel. 



Since writing the above, I have shot two specimens of a 

 bird, which in every particular agrees with the above, except 

 in having the throat of a dull buff colour, instead of pale 

 ash ; both of these were females; and I have little doubt but 

 they are of the same species with the present, as their peculiar 

 activity seemed exactly similar to the males above described. 



These birds do not breed in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 

 though they probably may be found in summer in the alpine 

 swamps and northern regions, in company with a numerous class 

 of the same tribe that breed in these unfrequented solitudes. 



* According to Bonaparte, this is a new species discovered by Wilson. 

 Comparatively little isknovm regarding it. — Ed. 



