728 BANANA WARBLER. 



and other insects, as well as lodging on the branches 

 of trees after the manner of those bu'ds ; it is 

 peculiar to the great Pine Swamp of Pensylvania, 

 and appears to be very rare, as the male only is 

 known, which is thus described by Wilson: ''Length 

 five inches and a half : beak black above, paler 

 below : upper parts of the plumage black, thinly 

 streaked with yellow-olive : head above yellow, 

 dotted with black : line from the nostril over the 

 eye, sides of the neck, and whole breast, rich 

 yellow: belly paler, streaked with dusky : round 

 the breast some small streaks of blackish : wings 

 black; their greater coverts, and next superior 

 row, broadly tipped with white, forming two broad 

 bars across the wings : primaries edged with olive, 

 tertials with white: tail-coverts black, tipped with 

 olive ; tail slightly forked, and edged with olive ; 

 the three exterior feathers altogether white on 

 their inner vanes : legs and feet dirty yellow : 

 irides dark hazel." 



BANANA WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia bananivora.) 



Sy. atro grisea, subtus Jlavescens^ crisso jiam griseoque vario, 

 gula cinerea, rectricum apice, alarum macula superciliisque 

 albis, loris nigris. 



Dusky-grey Warbler, beneath yellowish ; the vent varied with 

 yellow and grey ; the throat grey ; the tips of the tail-feathers, 

 spot on the wings, and eyebrows, white ; lores black. 



