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spreading and bending down his tail, until it trS' 
along the branch, and fluttering feebly along, to dr® ^ | 
you after him ; sometimes looking back, to see if ! 
are following him, and returning to repeat the s-jj® 
manoeuvres, in order to attract your attention. T® 
male is most remarkable for this practice. , 
The blue-eyed warbler is five inches long and se^ 
broad ; hind head and back, greenish yellow ,• cro'r®j 
front, and whole lower parts, rich golden yellow ; 
and sides, streaked laterally with dark red ; wnngs “"j 
tail, deep brown, except the edges of the former, ^ 
the inner vanes of the latter, which are yellow; 
tail is also slightlj' forked ; legs, a pale clay colo"^! 
bill and eyelids, light blue. The female is of a k’®| 
brilliant yellow, and the streaks of red on the hr*'? 
are fewer and more obscure. Buffbn is mistake!* 
supposing No. 1. of pi. enl. plate Iviii. to be the feni‘® 
of this species. 
1 11, STLFIA CASADENSIS, LATHAM AND WILSON. 
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XV. PIG. VII. 
I KNOW little of this bird. It is one of those transi®’| 
visitors that, in the month of April, pass thrdC 
Pennsylvania, on its way to the north, to breed. _ 
has much of the flycatcher in its manners, though 
form of its bill is decisively that of the warbler. Tb'"^ 
birds are occasionally seen for about a week or ^.j 
days, viz. from the 2.5th of April to the end of the h’’ 
week in May. I sought for them in the sonthern 
in winter, but in vain. It is highly probable that 1 
breed in Canada ; but the summer residents among 
feathered race, on that part of the continent, are I*’. ,, I 
known or attended to. The habits of the beat, 
deer, and beaver, are much more interesting to th®'^ 
people, and for a good substantial reason too, hers'® 
more lucrative ; and unless there should arrive an or‘' ^ 
from England for a cargo of skins of warblers ® 
