SPECIES 24. SYLVIA PEREGRINA. 
TENNESEE WARBLER. 
[Plate XXV.— Fig. 2.] 
Peale’s JRMsettm, JVb. 7787. 
This plain little bird has hitherto remained unknown. I first 
found it on the banks of Cumberland river, in the state of Ten- 
nesee, and supposed it to be a rare species, having since met 
with only two individuals of the same species. It was hunting 
nimbly among the young leaves, and like all the rest of the fa- 
mily of Worm-eaters, to which by its bill it evidently belongs, 
seemed to partake a good deal of the habits of the Titmouse. 
Its notes were few and weak; and its stomach on dissection 
contained small green caterpillars, and a few winged insects. 
As this species is so very rare in the United States, it is most 
probably a native of a more southerly climate, where it may be 
equally numerous with any of the rest of its genus. The small 
Cerulean Warbler, (Plate XVII, fig. 5.) which in Pennsylva- 
nia, and almost all over the atlantic states, is extremely rare, I 
found the most numerous of its tribe in Tennesee and West 
Florida; and the Carolina Wren, (Plate XII, fig. 5.) which is 
also scarce to the northward of Maryland, is abundant through 
the whole extent of country from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. 
Particular species of birds, like different nations of men, have 
their congenial climes and favourite countries; but wanderers 
are common to both; some in search of better fare; some of 
adventures; others led by curiosity; and many driven by storms 
and accident. 
The Tennesee Warbler is four inches and three quarters long, 
and eight inches in extent; the back, rump and tail coverts, are 
