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PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 
PINE-CREEPING WARBLER SYLVIA PINUS. 
Plate XIX. Fig. 4. 
Pine Creeper, Catesb. i. 61 — PeaWs Museum, No. 7312. 
SYL VICOLA PINUS. — Jardine. 
Sylvia pinus, Bonap. Synop. p. 81. 
This species inhabits the pine woods of the southern 
states, where it is resident, and where I first observed it, 
running along the bark of the pines; sometimes alighting, 
and feeding on the ground, and almost always, when disturbed, 
flying up, and clinging to the trunks of the trees. As I 
advanced towards the south, it became more numerous. Its 
note is a simple reiterated chirrup, continued for four or five 
seconds. 
Catesby first figured and described this bird ; but so imper- 
fectly, as to produce among succeeding writers great confusion, 
and many mistakes as to what particular bird was intended. 
Edwards has supposed it to be the Blue Winged Yellow 
Warbler ! Latham has supposed another species to be meant; 
and the worthy Mr Pennant has been led into the same 
mistakes ; describing the male of one species, and the female 
of another, as the male and female Pine Creeper. Having 
shot and examined great numbers of these birds, I am enabled 
to clear up these difficulties by the following descriptions, 
which will be found to be correct : 
The Pine-creeping Warbler is five and a half inches long, 
and nine inches in extent ; the whole upper parts are of a rich 
green olive, with a considerable tinge of yellow ; throat, sides, 
and breast, yellow ; wings and tail, brown, with a slight cast 
of bluish, the former marked with two bars of white, slightly 
tinged with yellow ; tail forked, and edged with ash ; the 
three exterior feathers, marked near the tip with a broad spot 
of white ; middle of the belly and vent-feathers, white. The 
