NASHVILLE WARBLER. 
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beginning of April, and the drawing made with care imme- 
diately after. Whether male or female, I am uncertain. It 
is one of those birds that usually glean among the high 
branches of the tallest trees, which renders it difficult to be 
procured. It was darting about with great nimbleness among 
the leaves, and appeared to have many of the habits of the 
Flycatcher. After several ineffectual excursions in search of 
another of the same kind, with which I might compare the 
present, I am obliged to introduce it with this brief account. 
The specimen has been deposited in Mr Peak’s museum. 
The Blue Green Warbler is four inches and a half long, 
and seven and a half in extent ; the upper parts are verditer, 
tinged with pale green, brightest on the front and forehead ; 
lores, line over the eye, throat, and whole lower parts, very 
pale cream; cheeks, slightly tinged with greenish; bill and 
legs, bright light blue, except the upper mandible, which is 
dusky ; tail, forked, and, as well as the wings, brownish black ; 
the former marked on the three exterior vanes with white, and 
edged with greenish ; the latter having the first and second 
row of coverts tipt with white. Note, a feeble chirp. 
NASHVILLE WARBLER — SYLVIA RUFICAPILLA. 
Plate XXVII. Fig. 3. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 7789. 
VERMIVORA R UBRICAPILLA Swainson. * 
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Sylvia rubricapilla, Wils. Catal. ■ — Bonap . Synop. p. 87. — Sylvicola (Vermivora) 
rubricapilla, North. Zool. ii. p. 220. — The Nashville Warbler, A nd, pi. 89 ; Orn. 
Biog. i. p. 430. 
The very uncommon notes of this little bird were familiar 
to me for several days before I succeeded in obtaining it. 
clicking sound with its bill, like Vireo. It also, like them, eats small berries, 
particularly towards autumn, when insects begin to fail. There seems little 
difference between the sexes. Such is the most important information given 
by Mr Audubon Ed. 
* Wilson discovered this species, and afterwards, in his Catalogue of Birds 
in the United States, changed the specific name as above. Like the last, it 
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