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— mixed with some pale slate ; wings, dusky 
ji " n, edged with olive ; lirst and second wing-coverts, 
" ith ivhite ; tertials, edged with yellowish white ; 
j’'®overts, pale gray; tail, dusky, forked, the two 
^ ''’tior feathers marked on their inner vanes « ith a 
of white ; round the eye is a whitish ring ; cheeks 
jj sides of tlM‘ breast, tinged with yellow, and slightly 
^Y'ited with black ; chin, n hite, as are also the belly and 
Ilf i legs and feet, dirty orange. 
. *e young bird of the lirst season, and the female, 
Q Usually 1:110 case, are very much alike in plumage. 
(I® tlleir arrival early in April, the black feathers on 
y** Crown are frequently seen coming out, intermixed 
the former ash coloured ones, 
of V''** species has all the agility and many of the habits 
tile llycatcher. 
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l20. SYLFJA FOItilOSAj WILSON. KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXT. FIti, III. 
new and beautiful species inhabits the country 
name it bears. It is also found generally in all 
Uitermediate tracts between Nashville and New 
^ilTwaus, and below that as I’ar as the Balize, or mouths 
j .the Mississippi ; where I heard it several times, 
of *tering among the high rank grass and low bushes 
*''ose solitary and desolate looking morasses. In 
^'utucky and Tennesee it is particularly numerous, 
j^^'rhueuting low, damp woods, and builds its nest in the 
f ‘uille of "a thick tuft of rank grass, sometimes in the 
,uf a low bush, and sometimes on the ground ; in 
Sr *i^ B’hiofj situations 1 have found it. The materials 
® loose dry grass, mixed ivith the light ])ith of weeds, 
..‘u lined with hair. The female lays four, and some- 
hu'!? ORSS. pure white, sprinkled with specif ot 
idish. 1 observed her sitting early in May. Tins 
.PCcies is seldom seen among the high branches ; but 
''■Os to frequent low bushes and cane swamps, and is 
active sprightly bird. Its notes are loud, and in 
