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YELLOW RUMP. 
little, chiefly in the colors being less vivid and not so strongly marked 
■with a tincture of brownish on the back. 
In the month of October the slate color lias changed to a brownish 
olive, the streaks of black are also considerably brown ; and the white 
is stained with the same color; the tail coverts, however, still retain 
their slaty hue, the yellow on the crown, and sides of the breast becomes 
nearly obliterated. Their only note is a kind of chip, occasionally re- 
peated. Their motions are quick, and one can scarcely ever observe 
them at rest. 
Though the form of the bill of this bird obliges me to arrange him 
with the Warblers, yet in his food and all his motions he is decisively 
a Flycatcher. 
On again recurring to the descriptions in Pennant of the " Yellow- 
rump Warbler,"* "Golden-crowned W.,"f and "Belted W.,"J I am 
persuaded that the whole three have been drawn from the present 
species. 
S YL VIA COR ON AT A. 
YELLOW RUMP. 
[Plate XLV. Fig. 3.] 
Edwards, 255.— Arct. Zool. n., p. 400, No. 288. 
In plate 17, fig. 4, this bird is represented in his perfect colors ; the 
present figure exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives to us from 
the north early in September ; the former shows him in his spring and 
summer dress, as he visits us from the south about the twentieth of 
March. These birds remain with us in Pennsylvania from September 
until the season becomes severely cold, feeding on the berries of the red 
cedar ; and as December's snows come on they retreat to the lower 
countries of the Southern States, where in February I found them in 
great numbers among the myrtles, feeding on the berries of that shrub ; 
from which circumstance they are usually called in that quarter Myrtle- 
birds. Their breeding place I suspect to be in in our northern districts, 
among the swamps and evergreens so abundant there, having myself 
shot them in the Great Pine swamp about the middle of May. 
They range along our whole Atlantic coast in winter, seeming parti- 
cularly fond of the red cedar and the myrtle ; and I have found them 
numerous, in October, on the low islands along the coast of New Jersey 
* Arct. Zool. p. 400, No. 188. f lb. No. 294. J lb. No. 306. 
