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CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 

 SYLVIA AGILIS. 

 [Plate XXXIX.— Fig. 4.] 



THIS is a new species, first discovered in the state of Connec- 

 ticut, and twice since met with in the neighbourhood of Philadel- 

 phia. As to its notes or nest, I am altogether unacquainted with 

 them. The different specimens I have shot corresponded very 

 nearly in their markings ; two of these were males, and the other 

 undetermined, but conjectured also to be a male. It was found in 

 every case among low thickets, but seemed more than commonly 

 active, not remaining for a moment in the same position. In some 

 of my future rambles I may learn more of this solitary species. 



Length five inches and three quarters, extent eight inches ; 

 whole upper parts a rich yellow olive; wings dusky brown, edged 

 with olive ; throat dirty white, or pale ash ; upper part of the breast 

 dull greenish yellow; rest of the lower parts a pure rich yellow; 

 legs long, slender, and of a pale flesh color; round the eye a nar- 

 row ring of yellowish white; upper mandible pale brown, lower 

 whitish; eye dark hazel. 



Since writing the above I have shot two specimens of a bird 

 which in every particular agrees with the above, except in having 

 the throat of a dull buff color instead of pale ash; both of these 

 were females, and I have little doubt but they are of the same spe- 

 cies with the present, as their peculiar activity seemed exactly simi- 

 lar to the males above described. 



These birds do not breed in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 

 tho they probably may be found in summer in the alpine swamps 

 and northern regions, in company with a numerous class of the 

 same tribe that breed in these unfrequented solitudes. 



