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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
not uncommon in Kentucky and Tennessee, and from 
thence inhabiting throughout the country to the estuaries 
of the Mississippi. It frequents low, damp woods, and 
the desolate borders of the lagoons, cane-brakes, and 
swamps, near the banks of the great rivers. It arrives 
in Kentucky about the middle of April, but enters the 
southern extremity of the Union from Mexico by the 
same time in March, and by the middle of September 
retires south of the United States. The males are very 
pugnacious in the pairing season of spring, and utter 
some loud notes, in threes, resembling the sound of 
'tweedle tweedle tiveedle. They attach the nest often 
to stems of stout weeds, or place it in a tuft of grass. It 
is made of the dry bark of herbaceous plants, mixed with 
downy substances, and lined with the cotton of the seed 
of the wild poplar. The eggs, 4 to 6, are pure white, 
and sprinkled with specks of reddish. The female begins 
to sit early in May, and they have usually two broods in 
the season. They now associate in families, and live in 
the greatest harmony. The species is scarcely known 
to the east of North Carolina. 
This Warbler is-5J inches long, and 8 in alar extent. Above deep 
green, tinged with olive, darkest on the upper part of the back. Tail 
nearly even, rich olive-green. Legs whitish flesh-color. Upper 
mandible blackish, the lower flesh-color. 
