SPECIES 25. SYLVM FORMOSA. 
KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
[Plate XXV.— Fig. 3.] 
Peale’s Museum, JV*o. 7786. 
This new and beautiful species inhabits the country whose 
name it bears. It is also found generally in all the intermediate 
tracts between Nashville and New Orleans, and below that as 
far as the Balize, or mouths of the Mississippi, where I heard it 
several times, twittering among the high rank grass and low 
bushes of those solitary and desolate looking morasses. In Ken- 
tucky and Tennesee it is particularly numerous, frequenting 
low damp woods, and builds its nest in the middle of a thick 
tuft of rank grass, sometimes in the fork of a low bush, and 
sometimes on the ground; in all of which situations I have found 
it. The materials are loose dry grass, mixed with the light pith 
of weeds, and lined with hair. The female lays four, and some- 
times six eggs, pure white, sprinkled with specks of reddish. 
I observed her sitting early in May. This species is seldom 
seen among the high branches; but loves to frequent low bush- 
es and cane swamps, and is an active sprightly bird. Its notes 
are loud, and in threes, resembling, tweedle, tweedle, tweedle. 
It appears in Kentucky from the south about the middle of April; 
and leaves the territory of New Orleans on the approach of cold 
weather; at least I was assured that it does not remain there 
during the winter. It appeared to me to be a restless, fighting 
species; almost always engaged in pursuing some of its fellows; 
though this might have been occasioned by its numbers, and 
the particular season of spring, when love and jealousy rage with 
violence in the breasts of the feathered tenants of the grove; who 
