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SYLVIA CORONATA. 
100 . SYLVIA CORONATA , LATHAM AND WILSON. 
YELLOW-HUMP WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XLV. FIG. III. — WINTER PLUMAGE. 
I must refer tlie reader to the last article for the 
description of this bird in his perfect colours ; the 
present exhibits him in his winter dress, as he arrives 
to us, from the north, early in September ; the former 
shews him in his spring and summer dress, as he visits 
us, from the south, about the 20th of March. These 
birds remain with us, in Pennsylvania, from September, 
until the season becomes severely cold, feeding on the 
berries of the red cedar ; and, as December’s snows 
come on, they, retreat to the lower countries of the 
southern States, where, in February, I found them in 
great numbers, among the myrtles, feeding on the 
berries of that shrub ; from which circumstance, they 
were usually called, in that quarter, myrtle birds. Their 
breeding place I suspect to be in our northern districts, 
among the swamps and evergreens so abundant there, 
having myself shot them in the Great Pine swamp 
about the middle of May. 
They range along our whole Atlantic coast in winter, 
seeming particularly fond of the red cedar and the 
myrtle ; and I have found them numerous, in October, 
on the low islands along the coast of New Jersey in the 
same pursuit. They also dart after flies, wherever they 
can see them, generally skipping about with the wings 
loose. 
Length, five inches and a quarter ; extent, eight 
inches ; upper parts and sides of the neck, a dark 
mouse brown, obscurely streaked on the back with 
dusky black ; lower parts, pale dull yellowish white ; 
breast, marked with faint streaks of brown ; chin and 
vent, white ; rump, vivid yellow ; at each side of the 
breast, and also on the crown, a spot of fainter yellow ; 
this last not observable, without separating the plumage ; 
bill, legs, and wings, black ; lesser coverts, tipt with 
