AUTUMNAL WARBLER. 
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orange passing over the eye ; under the eye, a small touch of 
orange yellow; whole throat and breast, rich fiery orange, 
bounded by spots and streaks of black; belly, dull yellow, 
also streaked with black; vent, white; back, black, skirted 
with ash ; wings, the same, marked with a large lateral spot of 
white ; tail, slightly forked ; the interior vanes of the three 
exterior feathers, white ; cheeks, black ; bill and legs, brown. 
The female is yellow where the male is orange; the black 
streaks are also more obscure and less numerous. 
AUTUMNAL WARBLER— SYLVIA AUTUMN ALIS. 
Plate XXIII. Fig. 4. 
SYL VICOLA f A UTUMNALIS. — Jardine. 
Sylvicola autumnalis, Bo-nap. Synop. p. 84. — The Autumnal Warbler, Aud. plate 
88 ; Orn. Biog. i. p. 447. 
This plain little species regularly visits Pennsylvania from 
the north, in the month of October, gleaning among the willow 
leaves; but, what is singular, is rarely seen in spring. From 
the 1st to the 15th of October, they may be seen in consider- 
able numbers, almost every day, in gardens, particularly among 
the ? branches of the weeping willow, and seem exceedingly 
industrious. They have some resemblance, in colour, to the 
Pine-Creeping Warbler ; but do not run along the trunk like 
that bird, neither do they give a preference to the pines. 
They are also less. After the first of November, they are no 
longer to be found, unless the season be uncommonly mild. 
These birds, doubtless, pass through Pennsylvania in spring, 
on their way to the north ; but either make a very hasty 
journey, or frequent the tops of the tallest trees; for I have 
never yet met with one of them in that season, though in 
October 1 have seen more than a hundred in an afternoon’s 
excursion. 
Length, four inches and three quarters; breadth, eight 
inches ; whole upper parts, olive green, streaked on the 
