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TENNESEE WARBLER. 

 SYLFIA PEREGRINA. 

 [Plate XXV.— Fig. 2.] 



Pe ale's Museum, No, 1787, 



THIS plain little bird has hitherto remained unknown. 1 iirst 

 found it on the banks of Cumberland river, in the state of Tenne- 

 see, and suppose it to be a rare species, having since met with only 

 two individuals of the same species. It was hunting nimbly among 

 the young leaves, and like all the rest of the family of Worm-eaters, 

 to which by its bill it evidently belongs, seemed to partake a good 

 deal of the habits of the Titmouse. Its notes were few and weak; 

 and its stomach on dissection contained small green caterpillars, 

 and a few winged insects. 



As this species is so very rare in the United States, it is most 

 probably a native of a more southerly climate, where it may be 

 equally numerous with any of the rest of its genus. The small Ce- 

 rulean Warbler, (plate XVII, fig, 5.) which in Pennsylvania, and 

 almost all over the Atlantic states, is extremely rare, I found the 

 most numerous of its tribe in Tennesee and West Florida; and the 

 Carolina Wren of the same volume, (plate XII, fig. 5.) which is 

 also scarce to the northward of Maryland, is abundant through the 

 whole extent of country from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. 



Particular species of birds, like different nations of men, have 

 their congenial climes and favorite countries; but wanderers are 

 common to both; some in search of better fare; some of adven- 

 tures ; others led by curiosity ; and many driven by storms and 

 accident. 



