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spreading and bending down his tail, until it trails 
along the branch, and flattering feebly along, to draw 
you after him ; sometimes looking back, to see if you 
are following him, and returning to repeat the same 
manoeuvres, in order to attract your attention. The 
male is most remarkable for this practice. 
The blue-eyed warbler is five inches long and seven 
broad ; hind head and back, greenish yellow ; crown, 
front, and whole lower parts, rich golden yellow ; breast 
and sides, streaked laterally with dark red ; wings and 
tail, deep brown, except the edges of the former, and 
the inner vanes of the latter, which are yellow ; the 
tail is also slightly forked ; legs, a pale clay colour ; 
bill and eyelids, light blue. The female is of a less 
brilliant yellow, and the streaks of red on the breast 
are fewer and more obscure. Buffon is mistaken in 
supposing No. 1. of pi. enl. plate Iviii. to be the female 
of this species. 
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] 11. SYLVIA CANADENSIS , LATHAM AND WILSON. 
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, 
WILSON, PLATE XV. FIG. VII. 
I know little of this bird. It is one of those transient 
visitors that, in the month of April, pass through 
Pennsylvania, on its way to the north, to breed. It 
has much of the flycatcher in its manners, though the 
form of its bill is decisively that of the warbler. These 
birds are occasionally seen for about a week or ten 
days, viz. from the 25th of April to the end of the first 
week in May. I sought for them in the southern States 
in winter, but in vain. It is highly probable that they 
breed in Canada ; but the summer residents among the 
feathered race, on that part of the continent, are little 
known or attended to. The habits of the bear, the 
deer, and beaver, are much more interesting to those 
people, and for a good substantial reason too, because 
more lucrative ; and unless there should arrive an order 
from England for a cargo of skins of warblers and 
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