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YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. 
shooting off after winged insects, in a downward zigzag 
direction, and, with admirable dexterity, snapping its bill as 
it descends. Its notes are few and feeble, repeated at short 
intervals, as it darts among the foliage ; having at some times 
a resemblance to the sounds, sic , sic , saic ; at others, weesy , 
weesy , weesy ; which last seems to be its call for the female, 
while the former appears to be its most common note. 
YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. — SYLVIA CORONATA. 
Plate XLV. Fig. 3. 
Edw. 255. — Arct. Zool. ii. p. 400, No. 288. 
SYLVICOLA COHONATA.-SwA.msoy winter plumage. 
Sylvia coronata, Bonap. Synop. p. 78 — Sylvicola coronata, North. Zool. ii. p. 210. 
I must again refer the reader to the first volume, Plate 
XVII. Fig. 4, for this bird in his perfect colours ; the present 
figure exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives to us, 
from the north, early in September ; the former shews him in 
his spring and summer dress, as he visits us, from the south, 
about the 20th of March. These birds remain with us, in 
Pennsylvania, from September, until the season becomes 
severely cold, feeding on the berries of the red cedar; and, 
as December’s snows come on, they retreat to the lower 
countries of the southern states, where, in February, I found 
them in great numbers, among the myrtles, feeding on the 
berries of that shrub ; from which circumstance, they are 
usually called, in that quarter, Myrtle Birds. Their breeding 
place I suspect to be in our northern districts, among the 
swamps and evergreens so abundant there, having myself shot 
them in the Great Pine Swamp about the middle of May. 
They range along our whole Atlantic coast in winter, 
seeming particularly fond of the red cedar and the myrtle ; 
and I have found them numerous, in October, on the low 
islands along the coast of New Jersey, in the same pursuit. 
They also dart after flies, wherever they can see them, 
generally skipping about with the wings loose. 
