CHESTNUT-SIDED WAKBX.ER. 
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Sj’tr/J PENXSrJCrANICAj WILSON. • — SrLVIA ICVRUOCE- 
rilALAf LATHAM. 
CHESTJfUT-SlDLD WAKBLEK. 
WILSON, PLATE XIV. FIO. V. 
bird I can give but little account. It is one 
Vj '.ose transient visitors that pass through Pennsyl- 
Ipe j April and May, on their way farther north to 
w During its stay here, which seldom exceeds a 
tie engaged among 
“Jiening buds and young leaves, in search of insects ; 
11? '*0 song hut a feeble chiq), or twitter; and is not 
O^fous. As it leaves us early in May, it probably 
ill'll « Canada, or, perhaps, some parts of New 
fJS’and; though I have no certain knowledge of the 
Mu' ^ whole day’s excursion, it is rare to nmet 
tl|. * •ttorc than one or two of these birds ; though a 
t)|p *^'id individuals of some species may be seen jn 
0 ^ Same time. Perhaps they may be more numerous 
rp?®>e other part of the continent. 
Sj- length of this species is five inches, the extent, 
^ ""'d three quarters. The front, line over the eye, 
lij I ®9r featlicrs, are ])uro white ; upper part of the 
win*’ “’■illiant yellow ; the lores, and space immediately 
are marked with a triangular patch of black ; the 
ajj .’‘•'dhind head is streaked with gray, dusky, black, 
liaipi’Jll yellow; wings, black; primaries, edged with 
tip, “‘He, the first and second row of coverts, broadly 
file pale yellow ; secondaries, broadly edged with 
edn. ; fail, black, handsomely forked, exteriorly 
" ith ash ; the inner w'ebs of the three exterior 
Of ‘‘s with each a spot of white ; from the extremity 
**'ack, at the lower mandible, on each side, a 
“1th “^““P '■eddish chestnut descends along the sides 
tL ® heck, and under the wings, to the root of the tail ; 
fenp of the low'er parts are pure white ; legs and 
tl|n ’, ““I' ; bill, black; irides, hazel. The female has 
hind head much lighter, and the chestnut on the 
