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SYLVIA AUTUMNALIS. 
to appoar wholly of that tint ; immediately heloia' 
primary coverts, there is a single triangular spot ® 
yellonish white; no other part of the wings is white' 
the three exterior tail-feathers, with a spot of white o<^ 
their inner vanes; the tail is slightly forked; from iK 
nostrils over the eye, extends a tine line of white, _ 
the lower eyelid is touched with the same tint ; lot^^ 
blackish ; sides of the neck and anricnlars, green oli'"*’’. 
whole lower parts, pale yellow ochre, withatingo*! 
greenish ; duskiest on the throat ; legs, long and dis- 
coloured. 
The plumage of the female differs in nothing fr®”' 
that of the male. 
130. SYLVIA AUTUMNALIS, WILSON. — AUTUMNAL 
WILSON, PLATF, XXITI. FIG. lY. 
This plain little species regularly visits Pennsylvo*'^ 
from the north in the month of October, gleaii'w 
among the willow leaves ; but, what is singular, 
riirely seen in spring. From the 1st to the loth 
October, they may be seen in considerable nunibo*^ 
almost every day, in gardens, particularly among ‘i' 
branchy of the weeping willow, and seem excecdii's • 
industrious. They hav(! some resemblance, in colo'‘ | 
to the pinc-creeping warbler ; but do not run along 
trunk like that bird, neither do they give a prefereiS 
to the pines, lliey arc also less. After tlie 
November, they are no longer to be found, unless * , 
season ho uncommonly mild. These birds, doubtb^^ 
passthrough Pennsylvania in spring, on their way , 
the north; but either make a very hasty journey, j 
frequent the tops of the tallest trees, for 1 have 
yet met with one of them in that season, though; 
October, I have seen more than a hundred in an ath' 
noon’s excursion. . 
^ Lengrth, four inches and three quarters ; bread* , 
eight inches ; whole upper parts, olive green, streak ^ 
