SPECIES IS. SYLVIA PINUS. 
PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 
[Plate XIX. — Fig. 4.] 
Pine- Creeper, Catesb. i, 61. — Peale’s Museum, JSTo. 7312. 
This species inhabits the pine woods of the Southern states, 
where it is resident, and where I first observed it, running along 
the bark of the pines; sometimes alighting and feeding on the 
ground, and almost always when disturbed flying up and cling- 
ing to the trunks of the trees. As I advanced towards the south 
it became more numerous. Its note is a simple reiterated chir- 
rup, continued for four or five seconds. 
Catesby first figured and described this bird; but so imper- 
fectly as to produce among succeeding writers great confusion, 
and many mistakes as to what particular bird was intended. 
Edwards has supposed it to be the Blue-winged Yellow Warb- 
ler; Latham has supposed another species to be meant; and the 
worthy Mr. Pennant has been led into the same mistakes; des- 
cribing the male of one species, and the female of another, as 
the male and female Pine-Creeper. Having shot and examined 
great numbers of these birds I am enabled to clear up these dif- 
ficulties by the following descriptions, which will be found to 
be correct. 
The Pine-creeping Warbler is five and a half inches long, and 
nine inches in extent; the whole upper parts are of a rich green 
olive, with a considerable tinge of yellow; throat, sides, and 
breast yellow; wings and tail brown with a slight cast of bluish, 
the former marked with two bars of white, slightly tinged with 
yellow; tail forked, and edged with ash; the three exterior feath- 
ers marked near the tip with a broad spot of white; middle of 
the belly and vent feathers white. The female is brown, tinged 
