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PINE-SWAMP WARBLER. 



at the base, flesh coloured ; corners of the mouth, yellow ; 

 eye, large and dark, surrounded with a white ring ; legs, long, 

 slender, and pale brown. 



Though I have given this bird the same name that Mr 

 Pennant has applied to one of our thrushes, it must not be 

 considered as the same ; the bird which he has denominated 

 the tawny thrush being evidently, from its size, markings, 

 &c, the wood thrush, already described. 



No description of the bird here figured has, to my know- 

 ledge, appeared in any former publication. 



PINE-SWAMP WARBLER. (Sylvia pusilla.) 



PLATE XLIII.— Fig. 4. 



VIBEO SPHA GNOSA. — Jardine. * 

 Sylvia sphagnosa, Bonap. Synop. p. 85. 



This little bird is for the first time figured or described. Its 

 favourite haunts are in the deepest and gloomiest pine and 

 hemlock swamps of our mountainous regions, where every 

 tree, trunk, and fallen log is covered with a luxuriant coat of 

 moss, that even mantles over the surface of the ground, and 

 prevents the sportsman from avoiding a thousand holes, springs, 

 and swamps, into which he is incessantly plunged. Of the 

 nest of this bird I am unable to speak. I found it associated 

 with the Blackburnian warbler, the golden-crested wren, ruby- 

 crowned wren, yellow rump, and others of that description, in 

 such places as I have described, about the middle of May. It 

 seemed as active in flycatching as in searching for other insects, 

 darting nimbly about among the branches, and flirting its 



* This species seems evidently a Vireo. Bonaparte thus observes, in 

 his "Nomenclature," and we have used his name : — "A new species, called 

 by a preoccupied name, but altered in the index to that of leucoptera, 

 •which is used for one of Vieillot's species, and was, therefore, changed to 

 that of palustris by Stephens ; but as this also is preoccupied, I propose 

 for it the name of S. sphagnosa." — Ed. 



