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kinds of bugs. The ne§t, according to Mr. Abbot, is suspended from 
the horizontal fork of a branch, and formed outwardly of slips of grape- 
vine bark, rotten wood, and caterpillars' webs, with sometimes pieces 
of hornets' nests interwoven ; and is lined with dry pine leaves, and fine 
roots of plants. The eggs are four, white, with a few dark brown spots 
at the great end. 
These birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty individuals, are 
found in the depth of the pine Barrens ; and are easily known by their 
manner of rising from the ground and alighting on the body of the 
tree. They also often glean among the topmost boughs of the pine 
trees, hanging, head downwards, like the titmouse. 
Species XIX. SYLVIA MAGNOLIA." 
BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 
[Plate XXIII. Fig. 2, Male.] 
This bird I first met with on the banks of the Little Miami, near its 
junction with the Ohio. I afterwards found it among the magnolias, 
not far from Fort Adams on the Mississippi. These two, both of which 
happened to be males, are all the individuals I have ever shot of this 
species ; from which I am justified in concluding it to be a very scarce 
bird in the United States. Mr. Peale, however, has the merit of having 
been the first to discover this elegant species, which he informs me he 
found several years ago not many miles from Philadelphia. No notice 
has ever been taken of this bird by any European naturalist whose 
works I have examined. Its notes, or rather chirpings, struck me as 
very peculiar and characteristic ; but have no claim to the title of song. 
It kept constantly among the higher branches, and was very active and 
restless. 
Length five inches, extent seven inches and a half ; front, lores, and 
behind the car, black ; over the eye a fine line of white, and another 
small touch of the same immediately under ; back nearly all black ; 
shoulders thinly streaked with olive ; rump yellow ; tail coverts jet 
black ; inner vanes of the lateral tail feathers white to within half an 
inch of the tip where they arc black ; two middle ones wholly black ; 
* Motacilla maculosa, Gmel. Si/st. i,, p. 984. — Syloia maculosa, Lath. Lid. Orn. n., 
p. 536. — Vieillot, Ois.de V Am. Sept. pi. 93. — Ficedula pensylvanica ncevia, Briss. 
hi., p. 5012, 56. — he Fiyuier a tSte cendr€e, Buff, v., p. 291. — Vellow-rumped Fly- 
catcher, Edw. Glean, pi. 255. — Ycllow-rumped Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. II., 2S8. 
— Lath. Syn. ir., p. 481, 104. 
