bird, and shows scarcely any symptoms of fear, ap- 
proaching very near to any person who does not drive 
or frighten it, and it soon becomes very tame and fa- 
miliar in confinement, where, if well managed, it will 
sing the greater part of the year. 
The present species, when first caught, should, if 
possible, be placed in a large cage or aviary with some 
other small birds, and must at first be supplied with 
some sort of insects ; flies, caterpillars, or maggots, 
should be put in a little pan, and when the bird has 
found them out, and begins to feed on them, some of 
the bruised hemp-seed and bread, with some bits of raw 
lean meat mixed up with it, should be placed in the 
same pan, with some insects stuck in it, that in picking 
up the insects it might taste the other food, and it will 
soon take to feed on it freely ; some of the yolk of an 
egg, boiled hard, should also be bruised up, and mois- 
tened with water, that it might stick to the insects, 
which are also to be stuck in it ; when the bird has 
tasted this, it will eat it readily, as it is particularly par- 
tial to egg after once tasting it; and it does for a change 
in the Winter instead of insects, when very few of them 
are to be procured. 
Those birds are particularly partial to washing them- 
selves in water, if it be placed in a pan in their cage or 
aviary ; at some seasons they will wash three or four 
times in a day, this will not hurt them in Summer when 
the weather is warm, but it weakens them very much if 
they are allowed to wash in Winter; once a week is 
often enough at that season, and then the water should 
be put in the cage in the morning, and after they have 
washed it should be again removed, they will then have 
time to dry themselves properly before the evening. 
I have no doubt but the present species, with S. arun- 
dinacea , and S. Locus tella, and some other exotic spe- 
cies, will be hereafter divided from this genus, and also 
from the other Warblers, and will form a distinct one of 
themselves. 
