YELLOW-THROATED GREY WARBLER. 
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occasionally found in West Florida, and perhaps may 
also occur in South Carolina, where the bird is known 
likewise to reside. This curious fabric is suspended to 
a kind of ropes, which hang from tree to tree, usually de- 
pending from branches that bend over rivers or ravines. 
The nest itself is made of dry blades of grass, the ribs of 
leaves, and slender root-fibres, the whole interwoven to- 
gether with great art ; it is also fastened to, or rather 
worked into, the pendent strings made of the tough silky 
fibres of some species of Echites , or other plant of that 
family. It is, in fact, a small circular bed, so thick and 
compact as to exclude the rain, left to rock in the wind 
without sustaining, or being accessible to any injury. The 
more securely to defend this precious habitation from the 
attacks of numerous enemies, the opening or entrance 
is neither made on the top nor the side, but at the bot- 
tom ; nor is the access direct, for after passing the vesti- 
bule, it is necessary to go over a kind of partition, and 
through another aperture, before it descends into the 
guarded abode of its eggs and young. This interior 
lodgment is round and soft, being lined with a kind of 
lichen, or the silky down of plants.* 
This species is about 5J inches in length, and 8 in alar extent. 
Tail emarginate, black, edged with grey ; wings black, the first row 
of wing-coverts edged and tipped with white, the second row almost 
wholly white. Line between the eye and nostril, whole throat and 
middle of the breast, yellow ; the lower eye-lid, line over the eye, and 
spot behind the ear-feathers, as well as the whole lower parts, pure 
white ; the yellow on the throat bordered with touches of black, 
which also extend on the sides under the wings. Bill black. Legs 
yellowish-brown. 
* A very different nest, resembling that of the Wood Pewee, is attributed to this 
species by Audubon, who also describes the eggs as white, with a few purple dots at 
the large end. 
