KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
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deep black ; the wings and tail du->ky black ; the primaries marked 
with a spot of white, and edged with olive green. Tail wedge-shaped, 
edged with dusky blue, the feathers pointed ; 2 and sometimes 3 of 
the external ones with a large white spot. Belly and vent white. 
Legs and feet dusky yellow. Bill black. — The black of the female 
inclined to dusky ash, or wanting. — The blue feathers of the hind 
part of the head and back, as well as the dark ones on the flanks, 
are edged with bright olive green ; perhaps a mark of the young 
bird. 
CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 
( Sylvia agilis , Wilson, v. p. 64. pi. 39. fig 4.) 
Sp. Charact. — Bright yellow-olive ; beneath yellow ; throat pale 
ash ; wings dusky. — Female , with the throat pale buff. 
This very rare bird is a spring visitor in Pennsylva- 
nia, New York, and New England. It appears to fre- 
quent low thickets, and is exceedingly active in pursuit 
of its prey, scarcely remaining a moment in the same 
place. It probably winters in tropical America. 
Length 5J inches ; alar extent 8. Above rich yellow-olive, nearly 
green ; wings dusky-brown, edged with olive. Throat dirty-white 
or pale ash ; upper part of the breast dull greenish-yellow ; below 
pure yellow. Round the eye a narrow ring of yellowish- white. 
Bill, upper mandible pale brown ; the lower whitish. Iris hazel. 
Legs long and slender, pale flesh-color. 
KENTUCKY WARBLER, 
(Sylvia formosa, Wilson, iii. p. 85. pi. 25. fig. 3. Audubon, pi. 38. 
Orn. Biog. i. p. 196. 
Sp. Charact. — Deep olive-green; beneath and line over the eye 
golden yellow ; crown black, spotted behind with pale ash; lores 
and space curving down the neck, black. — Female without the 
black under the eye, and nearly destitute of it on the crown, and 
with the sides under the wings pale green. 
This beautiful species, first described by Wilson, fre- 
quents the dark forests of the southwestern parts of the 
Union, being particularly abundant in Louisiana, and 
