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very mucli resembled those of the indigo 
pine ' ^^RtiRued a considerable time on the same 
creeping around the branches, and among the 
evfif**’ '** ti'e manner of the titmouse, uttering its song 
trcp^. '^I'ee or four minutes. On flying to another 
U[| ** frc((ueutly alighted on the body, and ran nimbly 
i‘i«e I» spirally and pcrpcndienlarly, in search of 
tit[, I had afterwards many opi>ortunities of seeing 
W * *'f the siinie species, and found them all to cor- 
nf these particulars. This was about the 24th 
’“'‘‘Ob R"d the first of their appearance there 
tlif *l'ring, for they leave the United States about 
to J ®’'>uths during winter, and, conseipiently, go to 
tbdj^’Jj-'tt distance. I had been previou.sly informed, 
Somi ‘'T also pass the summer in Virginia, and iu the 
prft^ti-u parts of Maiyland; but they very rarely 
Tli^'* as far north as Pennsylvania. 
'■’''In'* speoies is five inches and a half in length, and 
ttT,,, t.'m a half broad ; the whole badt, hind head and 
’'dcr, 
Ibrij^j’'’ a line light slate colour; the t.ail is somewhat 
4ri; hlack, and edged with light slate ; the wings 
pii.. to bhu'k, the three shortest secondaries, broadly 
i wing tinills are slightly 
same ; the first row ol vving-coverts are 
•isari edged with white, the second, wholly white, or 
file 7 to ; the frontlet, ear feathers, lores, and above 
nOstr[,'"Pl'>, are black ; 
the line between the eve and 
Ndl"’ " *>olo throat, and middle of the breast, brilliant 
aHfK® yellow; the low'er eyelid, line over the eye, 
loiver hchiud the ear feathers, as well as the whole 
is ports, .are pure white; the yellow on the throat 
’ilofl^' ^ed with touches of black, which also extend 
. I ti'les, under the wings ; the bill is black ; the 
fittg feet, yelbnvish brown ; the claws, extremely 
i*’*i''ted ; the tongue rather cartilaginous, and 
ol' the end. The female has the wings ot a 
Pelf/ “’’Own, .and the whole (sdonrs, particubu’ly the 
*1(6 c) ”0 the throat, much duller ; the young birds of 
Season are without the yellow. 
