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YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
ICTERIA VIRENS. 
Char. Above, olive; lores black; throat and breast rich yellow; 
belly white. Length 7 to 8 inches. 
Nest. In a thicket 2 or 3 feet from the ground ; of dried leaves, strips 
of bark, or grass lined with fine grass or fibres. 
Eggs. 3-4; white, with pink tint, spotted with brown and lilac ; 0.90 
X 0.70. 
This remarkable bird is another summer resident of the 
United States tvhich passes the winter in tropical America, 
being found in Guiana and Brazil, so that its migrations prob- 
ably extend indifferently into the milder regions of both 
hemispheres. Even the birds essentially tropical are still 
known to migrate to different distances on either side the 
equator, so essential and necessary is this wandering habit to 
almost all the feathered race. 
The Icteria arrives in Pennsylvania about the first week in 
May, and does not usually appear to proceed farther north and 
east than the States of New York or Connecticut. To the 
west it is found in Kentucky, and ascends the Ohio to the 
borders of Lake Erie. In the distant interior, however, near 
the Rocky Mountains, towards the sources of the Arkansas, 
this bird was observed by Mr. Say, and Mr. Townsend saw it 
