210 HEMLOCK WARBLER. 



yellow, streaked with black or dusky ; vent, plain pale yellow ; 

 wings, black ; first and second row of coverts, broadly tipt 

 with pale yellowish white ; tertials, the same ; the rest of the 

 quills edged with whitish ; tail, black, handsomely rounded, 

 edged with pale olive ; the two exterior feathers on each side, 

 white on the inner vanes from the middle to the tips, and 

 edged on the outer side with white ; bill, dark brown ; legs 

 and feet, purple brown ; soles, yellow ; eye, dark hazel. 

 This was a male. The female I have never seen. 



HEMLOCK WARBLER. {Sylvia parus.) 



PLATE XLIV.— Fig. 3. 



SYLVICOLA PABUS — Jaedine. 

 Sylvia parus, Bonap. Synop. p. 82. 



This is another nondescript, first met with in the Great Pine 

 Swamp, Pennsylvania. From observing it almost always 

 among the branches of the hemlock trees, I have designated 

 it by that appellation, the markings of its plumage not 

 affording me a peculiarity sufficient for a specific name. It 

 is a most lively and active little bird, climbing among the 

 twigs, and hanging like a titmouse on the branches, but 

 possessing all the external characters of the warblers. It has 

 a few low and very sweet notes, at which times it stops and 

 repeats them for a short time, then darts about as before. It 

 shoots after flies to a considerable distance ; often begins 

 at the lower branches, and hunts with great regularity and 

 admirable dexterity upwards to the top, then flies off to the 

 next tree, at the lower branches of which it commences hunt- 

 ing upwards as before. 



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

 in extent ; bill, black above, pale below ; upper parts of the 

 plumage, black, thinly streaked with yellow olive ; head 

 above, yellow, dotted with black ; line from the nostril, over 

 the eye, sides of the neck, and whole breast, rich yellow ; belly, 



