PINE SWAMP WARBLER. 
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eye, large and dark, surrounded with a white ring ; legs, long, 
slender, and pale brown. 
Though I have given this bird the same name that Mr 
Pennant has applied to one of our Thrushes, it must not be 
considered as the same ; the bird which he has denominated 
the Tawny Thrush being evidently, from its size, markings, 
&c. the Wood Thrush, already described. 
No description of the bird here figured has, to my know- 
ledge, appeared in any former publication. 
PINE SWAMP WARBLER SYLVIA PUSILLA. 
Plate XLIII. Fig. 4. 
VIREO SPHAGNOSA. —Jardine.* 
Sylvia sphagnosa, JSonap. Synop. p. 85. 
This little bird is, for the first time, figured or described. Its 
favourite haunts are in the deepest and gloomiest pine and 
hemlock swamps of our mountainous regions, where every tree, 
trunk, and fallen log, is covered with a luxuriant coat of moss, 
that even mantles over the surface of the ground, and prevents 
the sportsman from avoiding a thousand holes, springs, and 
swamps, into which he is incessantly plunged. Of the nest 
of this bird I am unable to speak. I found it associated with 
the Blackburnian Warbler, the Golden-crested Wren, Ruby- 
crowned Wren, Yellow-rump, and others of that description, 
in such places as I have described, about the middle of May. 
It seemed as active in flycatching as in searching for other 
insects, darting nimbly about among the branches, and flirting 
its wings ; but I could not perceive that it had either note or 
* This species seems evidently a Vireo. Bonaparte thus observes, in his 
Nomenclature, and we have used his name: — “ A new species, called by a 
preoccupied name, but altered in the index to that of leucoptera, which is 
used for one of Vieillot’s species, and was, therefore changed to that of 
palustris, by Stephens' ; but as this also is preoccupied, I propose for it the 
name of S. sphagnosa .” — Ed. 
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