HEMLOCK WARBLER. 
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yellow, streaked with black or dusky; vent, plain pale yellow; 
wings, black; first and second row of coverts, broadly tipt 
with pale yellowish white ; tertials, the same ; the rest of the 
quills, edged with whitish ; tail, black, handsomely rounded, 
edged with pale olive ; the two exterior feathers, on each 
side, white on the inner vanes from the middle to the tips, 
and edged on the outer side with white ; bill, dark brown ; 
legs and feet, purple brown ; soles, yellow ; eye, dark hazel. 
This was a male. The female I have never seen. 
HEMLOCK WARBLER SYLVIA PARUS. 
Plate XLIV. Fig. 3. 
SYLVICOLA PARUS. — Jaudine. 
Sylvia parus, Bonap. Synop. p. 82 . 
This is another nondescript, first met with in the Great 
Pine Swamp, Pennsylvania. From observing it almost always 
among the branches of the hemlock trees, I have designated 
it by that appellation, the markings of its plumage not afford- 
ing me a peculiarity sufficient for a specific name. It is a 
most lively and active little bird, climbing among the twigs, 
and hanging like a Titmouse on the branches ; but possessing 
all the external characters of the Warblers. It has a few low 
and very sweet notes, at which times it stops and repeats 
them for a short time, then darts about as before. It shoots 
after flies to a considerable distance ; often begins at the 
lower branches, and hunts with great regularity and admi- 
rable dexterity, upwards to the top, then flies off to the next 
tree, at the lower branches of which it commences^ unting 
upwards as before. 
This species is five inches and a half long; and eight 
inches in extent ; bill, black above, pale below ; upper parts 
of the plumage, black, thinly streaked with yellow olive ; 
head above, yellow, dotted with black ; line from the nostril 
over the eye, sides of the neck, and w T hole breast, rich 
yellow ; belly, paler, streaked with dusky ; round the breast, 
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