PENSILE WARBLER. 



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white ; the lores spotted with yellow, and the wing-coverts 



with alternate black anxl white bars. 

 Sylvia pen^ilis. Lnth, Ind, Orn, 2. 520. 41. — VieiL Ois. de 



l*Amer, Sept. 2- 20. 

 Motacilla pensilis. GmeL Si/st. Nat. 1. 9^0. 

 Cou-jaune. Buf. Hist. NaL Ois. 5. l65.— jBm/*. PL Enl. 686. 



La Favette ^ Cou-jaune. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 20. pi, 

 72. 



Pensile Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4* 441. 37. 



This elegant little species receives its name 

 from the singular manner in which its nest is sus- 

 pended : it is composed of the small dry fibres of 

 plants, roots, and decayed leaves ; and is fastened 

 by its top to the extremity of a branch that reaches 

 over the water ; the opening is at the bottom, and 

 about midway up is a kind of partition, which de- 

 scends to the bottom, which is lined with soft 

 down, and upon which the eggs are placed : they 

 are three or four in number, and the parents have 

 often two, and sometimes three broods in the year. 

 The following is the description of this industrious 

 little creature : it is four inches and three quarters 

 in length : its beak is dusky : the head is greyish 

 black, getting paler towards the nape : the back 

 of the neck and back are deep grey : the eye- 

 brows and orbits are white : between the beak 

 and eye a few yellow spots : wing-coverts barred 

 with white and black : quills edged with grey : 

 the throat, neck, and breast, yellow : the sides of 

 the neck sprinkled with dusky, and of the body 

 with black : belly white : tail dark grey, with the 

 four outer feathers marked v»^ith large white spots : 



