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BLUE-HEADED WARBLER. 



side of the neck, beneath the eye, black : the eye- 

 brows, spot beneath the eye, and the under parts 

 of the plumage, brilliant yellow : legs flesh-colour : 

 the female has but little black on the crown, and 

 is destitute of the spot beneath the eye. 



This bird is common in Kentucky and the Ten- 

 nesee country, among low and damp grounds, where 

 it builds its nest on a tuft of grass, or in a low 

 bush ; it is composed of dry loose grass and weeds, 

 and lined with hair : the eggs are four in number, 

 pure white, with reddish spots. About April it 

 arrives in Kentucky from the south, and remains 

 there till the approach of cold weather, when it 

 disappears ; it is a restless quarrelsome species. 



BLUE-HEADED WARBLEH. 



( Sylvia cyanocephala.) 4r ' 



Sy. mridis, capite tectricihusque alarum siiperioribus cceruleiSf 



gula cana, remigibus Juscis margine mridibus. 

 Green Warbler^ with the head and greater wing-coverts blue j 



the throat hoary; the quills brown, edged with green. 

 Sylvia cyanocephala. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 546, 144. 

 Motacilla cyanocephala. GmeL Si/st. Nat. 1. 990. l63. 

 Sylvia viridis. Briss, Orn. 3. 531. 70. pi. 28. f. 4. 

 Pitpit vert. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 338. 

 Blue-headed Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 503. ISp. 



Not quite five inches long : beak brown : the 

 head, and upper wing-coverts, blue: the throat 



