YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. 2 l$ 



shooting off after winged insects in a downward zigzag 

 direction, and, with admirable dexterity, snapping its bill as 

 it descends. Its notes are few and feeble, repeated at short 

 intervals, as it darts among the foliage ; having at some times 

 a resemblance to the sounds, sic sic sdic ; at others, weesy 

 iveesy weesy ; which last seems to be its call for the female, 

 while the former appears to be its most common note. 



YELLOW-EUMP WAEBLEE. {Sylvia covonata.) 



PLATE XLV.— Fig. 3. 



Edw. 255.— Arct. Zool. ii. p. 400, No. 288. 

 SYLVICOLA COROJSTATA.—Swawson.— Winter Plumage. 



Sylvia coronata, Bonap. Synop. p. 78. — Sylvicola coronata, North. Zool. ii. 



p. 210. 



I must again refer the reader to the first volume, Plate 

 XVII. fig. 4, for this bird in his perfect colours ; the present 

 figure exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives to us 

 from the north early in September ; the former shows him in 

 his spring and summer dress, as he visits us from the south 

 about the 20th of March. These birds remain with us in 

 Pennsylvania from September until the season becomes 

 severely cold, feeding on the berries of the red cedar ; and, 

 as December's snows come on, they retreat to the lower 

 countries of the southern States, where, in February, I found 

 them in great numbers among the myrtles, feeding on the 

 berries of that shrub ; from which circumstance they are 

 usually called, in that quarter, myrtle birds. Their breeding 

 place I suspect to be in our northern districts, among the 

 swamps and evergreens so abundant there, having myself shot 

 them in the Great Pine Swamp about the middle of May. 



They range along our whole Atlantic coast in winter, 

 seeming particularly fond of the red cedar and the myrtle ; 

 and I have found them numerous in October, on the low 

 islands along the coast of New Jersey, in the same pursuit. 

 They also dart after flies, wherever they can see them, gene- 

 rally skipping about with the wings loose. 



