SPECIES 7. SYLVIJi FLJIVICOLLIS. 
YELLOW-THROAT WARBLER. 
[Plate XII, — Fig. 6.] 
Yellow-throat Warbler, Arct. ZooL p. 400, JVb. 286. — Catesb. 
I, 62. — JiATH. II, 441. — La Mesange grise a gorge jaune, Buff. 
V, 454. — La gorge jaune de St. Domingue, Tl. Enl. 686, jig. 1.* 
The habits of this beautiful species, like those of the preced- 
ing, are not consistent with the shape and construction of its 
bill; the former would rank it with the Titmouse, or with the 
Creepers, the latter is decisively that of the Warbler. The first 
opportunity I had of examining a living specimen of this bird 
was in the southern parts of Georgia, in the month of F ebruary. 
Its notes which were pretty loud and spirited, very much re- 
sembled those of the Indigo-bird. It continued a considerable 
time on the same pine tree, creeping around the branches and 
among the twigs, in the manner of the Titmouse, uttering its 
song every three or four minutes. On flying to another tree it 
frequently alighted on the body, and ran nimbly up or down, 
spirally and perpendicularly, in search of insects. I had after- 
wards many opportunities of seeing others of the same species, 
and found them all to correspond in these particulars. This was 
about the 24th of February, and the first of their appearance 
there that spring, for they leave the United States about three 
months during winter, and consequently go to no great distance. 
I had been previously informed that they also pass the summer 
in Virginia and in the southern parts of Maryland; but they 
very rarely proceed as far north as Pennsylvania. 
* Motacilla pensilis, Gmel. i, p. 960 . — MolacUla Jlavicollis, Gmee. Syst. i, 959. 
■Sylvia pemilis, Lath. Ind, Orn. ii, p- 520. — Vieill. Oi$ de V.Am- Sept. pi. "2. 
