KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
STS 
coverts are of a rich yellow olive ; lesser wing-coverts, the 
same ; wings, deep dusky, edged broadly with yellow olive ; 
tail, forked, olive, relieved with dusky ; cheeks and upper 
part of the head, inclining to light bluish, and tinged with 
olive ; line from the nostrils over the eye, pale yellow, fading 
into white ; throat and breast, pale cream colour ; belly and 
vent, white ; legs, purplish brown ; bill, pointed, and thicker 
at the base than those of the Sylvia genus generally are ; upper 
mandible, dark dusky ; lower, somewhat paler ; eye, hazel. 
The female differs little, in the colour of her plumage, from 
the male ; the yellow line over the eye is more obscure, and 
the olive not of so rich a tint. 
KENTUCKY WARBLER SYLVIA FORMOSA. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 3. 
Peale's Museum, No. 7786. 
SYL VICOLA f FORMOSA. — Jardine. 
Sylvia formosa, Bonap. Synop. p. 84 The Kentucky Warbler, Aud. pi. 38, male 
and female ; Orn. Biog. i. p. 196. 
This new and beautiful species inhabits the country whose 
name it bears. It is also found generally in all the intermediate 
tracts between Nashville and New Orleans, and below that as 
far as the Balize, or mouths of the Mississippi ; where I heard 
it several times twittering among the high rank grass and low 
bushes of those solitary and desolate looking morasses. In 
Kentucky and Tennesee it is particularly numerous, frequent- 
ing low, damp woods, and builds its nest in the middle of a 
thick tuft of rank grass, sometimes in the fork of a low bush, 
and sometimes on the ground ; in all of which situations I have 
found it. The materials are loose dry grass, mixed with the 
light pith of weeds, and lined with hair. The female lays 
four, and sometimes six eggs, pure white, sprinkled with 
specks of reddish. I observed her sitting early in May. This 
species is seldom seen among the high branches ; but loves 
