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Y E L L 0 W - Til R 0 A T WARBLER. 
and whitish below ; nostril oblong ; eye light hazel. The female wants 
the points of white on the wing coverts. The food of this bird is 
derived from that great magazine of so many of the feathered race, 
insects and their larvce, particularly such as inhabit watery places, roots 
of bushes, and piles of old timber. 
It were much to be wished that the summer residence, nest and eggs, 
of this bird were precisely ascertained, which would enable us to deter- 
mine whether it be, what I strongly suspect it is, the same species as the 
common domestic Wren of Britain. 
Species II. SYLVIA FLAVICOLLIS. 
YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 
[Plate XII. Fig. 6.] 
Yellow-throat Warbler, Arct. Zool. p. 400, No. 286. — Catesb. i., 62. — Lath, h., 441. 
— La Mesange griseci gorge jaune, Buff, v., 454. — La gorge jaune de Si. Domingue, 
Pl.Enl, 686, fig. 1* 
The habits of this beautiful species, like those of the preceding, are 
not consistent with the shape and construction of its bill ; the former 
would rank it with the Titmouse, or with the Creepers, the latter is 
decisively that of the Warbler. The first opportunity I had of examin- 
ing a living specimen of this bird was in the southern parts of Georgia, 
in the month of February. Its notes which were pretty loud and spir- 
ited, very much resembled those of the Indigo-bird. It continued a 
considerable time on the same pine tree, creeping around the branches 
and among the twigs, in the manner of the Titmouse, uttering its song 
every three or four minutes. On flying to another tree it frequently 
alighted on the body, and ran nimbly up or down, spirally and perpen- 
dicularly, in search of insects. I had afterwards many opportunities 
of seeing others of the same species, and found them all to correspond 
in these particulars. This was about the 24th of February, and the 
first of their appearance there that spring, for they leave the United 
States about three months during winter, and consequently go to no 
great distance. I had been previously informed that they also pass the 
summer in Virginia and in the southern parts of Maryland ; but they 
very rarely proceed as far north as Pennsylvania. 
This species is five inches and a half in length, and eight and a half 
* Motacilla pensilis, Gmel. i., p. 9G0. — Motacilla Jtaricollis, Gmel. Syst. i.. 959. 
— Sylvia pensilis, Lath. Ind. Om. n., p. 520. — Vieill. Ois. de I' Am. Sept. pi. 72. 
