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SYLVIA PEN'SIHS. 
March; so that it probably retires to the West In''’* 
islands, and perhaps Mexico, durinfr winter. I a'f* i 
heard this bird among the rank reeds and rushes with'” i 
a few miles of the mouth of the Mississippi. It hs* 
been sometimes seen in the neighbourhood of Phi'*' 
delphia, but rarely ; and, on such occasions, has all 
mute timidity ot a strang’er at a distau(!e from home. 
This species is live inches and a half long, and eig'** 
in extent; forehead, cheeks, and chin, yellow, s"f' 
rounded with a hood of black, that covers the croi'Oi 
hind head, and part of the neck, and descends, rounding* 
over the breast; ail the rest of the lower parts are rie'’ 
yellow ; upper itarts of the wings, the tail, and bad*' 
yellow olive ; interior vanes, and tips of the wing an<* 
tail, dusky ; bill, black ; legs, flesh coloured ; inner wdj* 
of the three exterior tail feathers, ivhite for half thd' 
length from the tips ; the next, slightly touched witj 
white ; the tail slightly forked, and exteriorly edg^* 
with rich yellow olive. 
The female has the throat and breast yellow, slightly 
tin^od with bliickisli j the bluck does not reach so 
down the upper part of the neck, and is not of so deep 
a tint. In the other parts ot her plumage she exactly 
resembles the male. I have found some females th*'’ 
had little or no black on the head or neck above; bu' 
these I took to he young birds, not yet arrived at theif 
full tints. 
106. SYLVIA PENSILIS, LATH SYLVIA FLAYICOLLIS, WltS- 
YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER, 
WlLJsOX, PLATE XII. FIO. \I. 
The habits of this beautiful species are not consistent 
with the shape and construction of its bill ; the form*”^ 
would rank it with the titmouse, or with the creeper*;, | 
the latter is decisively that of the warbler. The flrsf 
opportunity I had ot exainining a liviuir specimen o' 
this bird, was in the southern parts of G^eom'ia, in th« 
mouth of February. Its notes, which were pretty lou** I 
