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YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 

 SYLVIA FLAVICOLLIS, 

 [Plate XIL— Fig. 6.] 



Yellow-throat Warbler, Arct\ Zool p. 400, No. 286.— Catesb. I, 62.— Lath. 11, 437.— 

 La Mesange grise a gorge jaune, Burr. V, 454. — La gorge jaune de St. Domingue, PI. 

 enl. 686, Jig. I. 



THE habits of this beautiful species, like those of the pre- 

 ceding, are not consistent with the shape and construction of its 

 bill; the former would rank it with the Titmouse, or with the 

 Creepers, the latter is decisively that of the Warbler. The first 

 opportunity I had of examining a living specimen of this bird was 

 in the southern parts of Georgia, in the month of February. Its 

 notes which were pretty loud and spirited, very much resembled 

 those of the Indigo-bird. It continued a considerable time on the 

 same pine tree, creeping around the branches and among the twigs, 

 in the manner of the Titmouse, uttering its song every three or four 

 minutes. On flying to another tree it frequently alighted on the 

 body, and ran nimbly up or down, spirally and perpendicularly, in 

 search of insects. I had afterwards many opportunities of seeing 

 others of the same species, and found them all to correspond in 

 these particulars. This was about the 24th of February, and the 

 first of their appearance there that spring, for they leave the United 

 States about three months during winter, and consequently go to 

 no great distance. I had been previously informed that they also 

 pass the summer in Virginia and in the southern parts of Mary- 

 land; but they very rarely, proceed as far north as Pennsylvania. 



This species is five inches and a half in length, and eight and 

 a half broad; the whole back, hind head and rump is a fine light 



