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SYLVIA ECBRICAPILLA. 
Pennsylvania, and almost all over the Atlantic 
is extremely rare, I found the most numerous ol',’’’ 
tribe in Teunesee and West Florida ; and the Caroh" 
wren, which is also scarce to the northward of 
land, is abundant through the whole extent of couutO 
from Pittsburg to New Orleans. j 
Particular species of birds, like different nation® 
men, have their congenial climes and favourite OU" j 
tries ; but u anderers are common to both ; sonic ' j 
search of better faro, some of adventure, others h'd 
curiosity, and many driven by storms and accident. 
The Tenuesee warbler is four inches and three 
ters long, and eight inches in extent; the back, r«’’’e 
and tail-coverts, are of a rich yellow olive ; lesser 
coverts, the same; wings, deep dusky, edged br 0 ii®t 
with yellow olive; tail, forked, olive, relieved 
dusky; cheeks and upper part of the head, inclinio?.'|j 
light bluish, and tinged with olive ; line from the nosff' j 
over the eye, pale yellow, fading into white ; throat a®, 
breast, pale cream colour ; belly and vent, white ; 
purplish bron n; bill, pointed, and thicker at the b®-' 
than those of the sijlvia genus generally are ; 
mandible, dark dusky, lower, somewhat paler; c.' ' 
hazel. 
The female differs little, in the colour of her pluto®C' ' 
from the male; the yellow line over the eye is i 
obscure, and the olive not of so rich a tint. 
137. STLriA RUBRICAPlLLAf Vfl'LfiOiJ. NASIIVII.LE WASarC®* 
■NYlI.aON, PLATE XXYIl. PIG. III. 
The very uncommon “notes of this little bird 
familiar to me for several days before I succeedc'i. ^ 
obtaining it. These notes very much resembled • a 
breaking of small dry twigs, or the striking of at*®, j 1 
pebbles of different sizes smartly against each othC , ^ 
six or seven times, and loud enough to be heard 
distance of thirty or forty yards. It was some 
before I could ascertain whether the sound 
from a bird or an insect. At length I discovered the b’® 
