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any other food. The sexual distinction was very apparent, and the brace 
proved a pair. They were not in the least shy, and in fact seemed to take 
very little notice of me, although at times I was quite close to them. These 
being the only individuals I ever met with, I am of course unable to say 
where the species breeds, or what are its migrations. 
The plant on which they are placed grew abundantly on the spot where I 
procured them ; and as they had just alighted on it when I shot them, it 
being moreover a handsome species, I thought it best to attach it to them. 
Wilson’s account of this bird is as follows : “ This is a new species, first 
discovered in the State of Connecticut, and twice since met with in the 
neighbourhood of Philadelphia. The different specimens I have shot cor- 
respond very nearly in their markings ; two of these were males, and the 
other undetermined, but conjectured also to be a male. It was found in 
every case among low thickets, but seemed more than commonly active, not 
remaining for a moment in the same position. 
“ Length five inches and three quarters ; extent eight inches ; whole upper 
parts a rich yellow-olive ; wings dusky brown, edged with olive ; throat dirty 
white or pale ash ; upper part of the breast dull greenish-yellow ; rest of the 
lower parts a pure rich yellow ; legs long, slender, and of a pale flesh-colour ; 
round the eye a narrow ring of yellowish-white ; upper mandible pale brown, 
lower whitish ; eye dark hazel. 
“ Since writing the above, I have shot two specimens of a bird, which in 
every particular agrees with the above, except in having the throat of a dull 
buff-colour, instead of a pale ash. Both of these were females ; and I have 
little doubt but they were of the same species with the present, as their 
peculiar activity seemed exactly similar to the males above described.” 
The males thus described by Wilson, however, I am inclined to think 
were young birds in their second plumage. 
This species forms a connecting link between Sylvicola and Trichas, 
having the long pointed wings of the former, and the general appearance of 
the latter, which it resembles, especially in its tail, which is neither einargi- 
nate nor marked with the white spots seen on that of almost all the other 
Sylvicolm, but which do not exist in the genus Trichas. Some of the 
Sylvicolm are, in like manner, assimilated to Myiodoctes, and others to 
Vermivora. Of the former may be mentioned, Sylvicola Auduboni and S. 
coronata j of the latter, S. Blac/cburnice. 
Connecticut Warbler, Sylvia agilis, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. v. p. G4. 
Sylvia agilis, Bonap. Syn., p. 84. 
Connecticut Warbler, Sylvia ayilis , Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 399. 
Connecticut Warbler, Sylvia agilis , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 227 ; vol. v. p. 81. 
