THE YELLOW-THROATED WOOD-WARBLER. 
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The song of the Yellow- throated Warbler would please you, kind reader. 
Of this I have not a doubt, as it is soft and loud, and is continued for two or 
three minutes at a time, not unlike that of the Painted Finch, or Indigo-bird. 
As it is heard in all parts of our most dismal cypress swamps, it contributes 
to soothe the mind of a person whose occupation may lead him to such 
places. I never saw this species on the ground. The male and the female 
are nearly alike in plumage, but the young birds, which hunt for insects in 
company, in the manner of Creepers or Titmice, do not acquire the yellow 
on the throat, nor the full brilliancy of their plumage, until the first spring. 
These birds confine themselves to the Southern States, seldom moving 
farther towards the Middle Districts than N orthCarolina. They do not 
even ascend the Mississippi farther than the Walnut Hills. They are 
abundant in the neighbourhood of the Red river, and probably do not go 
farther south than Mexico, during their short absence from the United States. 
Happening to shoot several of these birds on a large chinquapin tree, 
growing on the edge of a hill close to a swamp, I have put a male on one of 
its twigs, which is furnished with a few fruits quite ripe and ready to leave 
their husks. In the Southern States this tree is rare. It generally prefers 
elevated places, and rocky declivities, with an arid soil. The wood resembles 
that of the chestnut, but the trees being generally small, little use is made of 
it as timber. The fruit is eaten by children. This tree is abundant along 
the greater part of the range of the Alleghanies and its branches. 
Yellow-throated Warbler, Sylvia f.avicollis, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 64. 
Sylvia pensilis, Bonap. Syn., p. 19. 
Yellow-throated Warbler, Sylvia pensilis, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 434. 
Outer three quills almost equal, second quill longest, fourth shorter than 
first ; tail slightly cmarginate. Male with theiipper partslight greyish-blue; 
the forehead black, the crown spotted with the same ; a white line over the 
eye; secondary coverts and first row of small coverts largely tipped with 
white; quills greyish-black, margined with light greyish-blue; tail-feathers 
of the same colour, the outer three with a patch of white on the inner web 
at the end ; loral space, a band under the eye, ear-coverts, a band down the 
side of the neck, and numerous oblong spots on the sides of the body, black ; 
throat bright yellow ; rest of lower parts white. Female similar, but with 
the tints paler. 
Male, bi, Si. 
From Texas to New Jersey. In the interior along the Mississippi to 
Natchez. Common. Migratory. 
