yellow-breasted chat. G9 
.^*g'‘2ag direction, and, with admirable 
hill as it descends. Its notes 
darts a Iheble, repeated at short intervals, as it 
hlancp ^he foliage ; having at some times a resem- 
'^ees7/ ** sounds sic, sic, saic; at others of weesy, 
feinaf ’ last seems to be its call for the 
note ’ "^hile the former appears to be its most common 
‘OTBUli 
GENUS XVII — LCTER/A, VlEItL. 
riSIDIS, EONAPAIITE. PIPEA POLPCLOTTA, WILS. 
TELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
WILSON, PLATE VI. FlO. H. 
ao J iV® ^ Yery singular bird. In its voice and manners, 
and r * .^^hit it has of keeping concealed, while shifting 
'^^rfetating around you, it differs from most other 
oj^j ^ 'Yith whicli I am acquainted, and has considerable 
svlv'* ■*"** ^’’iginality of character. It arrives in Penu- 
the ****'‘ A‘hout the first week in May, and returns to 
jour^**™* again as soon as its young arc able for the 
its t^^^’ 'Yhich is usually about the middle of August; 
af residence here being scarcely four months, 
himal*”^ ** generally arrive several days before the 
oiiv i ^ circumstance common with many other of 
"l^urds of passage. ^ 
^>tuat‘^** ®**‘'*’ *'ahen up his residence in a favourite, 
hazel 'Yhich is almost always in close thickets of 
Very, i '’^“hles, vines, and thick underwood, he becomes 
the^l . possessions, and seems offended at 
as tlip**^*^ intru-sion ; scolding every pitssenger as soon 
ancoi within view, in a great variety of odd and 
hut wl • f‘“"®’*yl^ables, which it is difficult to descrihe, 
bird L- ® \™ay be readily imitated, so as to deceive the 
of aud draw him after you for half a quarter 
*U do' ' a time, as I have sometimes amused myself 
these*”^’ fruiuently without once seeing him. On 
ttron ?®Yaaions, his responses are constant and rapid, 
“giy expressive of anger and anxiety; and while 
