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TENNESEE WARBLER. 
TENNESEE WARBLER SYLVIA PEREGRINA. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 2. 
Peale's Museum , No. 7787. 
VERMIVORA PEREGRINA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia peregrina, Bonap. Synop. p. 87. — Sylvicola (Vermivora) peregrina, 
North. Zool. ii. p. 185. 
This plain little bird has hitherto remained unknown. I 
first found it on the banks of Cumberland river, in the state 
of Tennesee, and suppose it to be rare, having since met with 
only two individuals of the same species. It was hunting 
nimbly among the young leaves, and, like all the rest of the 
family of worm-eaters, to which, by its bill, it evidently 
belongs, seemed to partake a good deal of the habits of the 
Titmouse. Its notes were few and weak ; and its stomach, 
on dissection, contained small green caterpillars, and a few 
winged insects. 
As this species is so very rare in the United States, it is 
most probably a native of a more southerly climate, where it 
may be equally numerous with any of the rest of its genus. 
The small Cerulean Warbler, (Plate XVII. Fig. 5.) which, 
in Pennsylvania, and almost all over the Atlantic States, is 
extremely rare, I found the most numerous of its tribe in 
Tennesee and West Florida; and the Carolina Wren, 
(Plate XII. Fig. 5.) which is also scarce to the northward of 
Maryland, is abundant through the whole extent of country 
from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. 
Particular species of birds, like different nations of men, 
have their congenial climes and favourite countries ; but 
wanderers are common to both ; some in search of better 
fare, some of adventures, others led by curiosity, and many 
driven by storms and accident. 
The Tennesee Warbler is four inches and three quarters 
long, and eight inches in extent ; the back, rump, and tail- 
