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KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
to frequent low bushes and cane swamps, and is an active, 
sprightly bird. Its notes are loud, and in threes, resembling 
tweedle , tweedle , tweedle . It appears in Kentucky from the 
south about the middle of April ; and leaves the territory of 
New Orleans on the approach of cold weather ; at least I was 
assured that it does not remain there during the winter. It 
appeared to me to be a restless, fighting species ; almost 
always engaged in pursuing some of its fellows ; though this 
might have been occasioned by its numbers, and the particular 
season of spring, when love and jealousy rage with violence 
in the breasts of the feathered tenants of the grove ; who 
experience all the ardency of those passions no less than their 
lord and sovereign, man. 
The Kentucky Warbler is five inches and a half long, and 
eight inches in extent ; the upper parts are an olive green ; 
line over the eye, and partly under it, and whole lower parts, 
rich brilliant yellow ; head, slightly crested, the crown, deep 
black, towards the hind part spotted with light ash ; lores, 
and spot curving down the neck, also black ; tail, nearly even 
at the end, and of a rich olive green ; interior vanes of that 
and the wings, dusky ; legs, an almost transparent pale flesh 
colour. 
The female wants the black under the eye, and the greater 
part of that on the crown, having those parts yellowish. This, 
bird is very abundant in the moist woods along the Tennesee 
and Cumberland rivers. 
