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SYLVIA WILSONII. 
1 14 . SYLVIA TRICUAS , LATK. SYLVIA MARYLANDICA, WILSON. 
MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
WILSON, PLATE XVIII. FIG. IV. — FEMALE. 
The male of this species having* been described in 
the preceding* article, accompanied by a particular detail 
of its manners, I have little farther to add here relative 
to this bird. 1 found several of them round Wilmington, 
North Carolina, in the month of January, along the 
margin of the river, and by the Cypress Swamp, on the 
opposite side.. The individual from which the descrip- 
tion was taken, was the actual nurse of a young cow- 
pen bunting, in the act of feeding which I took a 
drawing of it. 
It is live inches long, and seven in extent ; the whole 
upper parts, green olive ; something brownish on the 
neck, tips of the wings, and head; the lower parts, 
yellow, brightest on the throat and vent; legs, flesh 
coloured. The chief difference betvreen this and the 
male, in the markings of their plumage, is, that the 
female is destitute of the black bar through the eyes, 
and the bordering one of pale bluish white. 
115 . SYLVIA WILSONII, BONAP . — MUSCICAPA PUSILLA, WILSON. 
GREEN BLACK-CAFT FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXVI. FIG. IV. 
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This neat and active little species I have never met 
with in the works of any European naturalist. It is 
an inhabitant of the swamps of the southern States, and 
has been several times seen in the knver parts of the 
States of New Jersey and Delaware. Amidst almost 
unapproachable thickets of deep morasses it commonly 
spends its time, during summer, and has a sharp squeak- 
ing note, nowise musical. It leaves the southern States 
early in October. 
