KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
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the same, mixed with some pale slate ; wing’s, dusky 
brown, edged with olive ; first and second wing-coverts, 
tipt with white ; tertials, edged with yellowish white ; 
tail-coverts, pale gray; tail, dusky, forked, the two 
exterior feathers marked on their inner vanes with a 
spot of white; round the eye is a whitish ring; cheeks 
and sides of the breast, tinged with yellow, and slightly 
spotted with black ; chin, white, as are also the belly and 
vent ; legs and feet, dirty orange. 
The young bird of the first season, and the female, 
as is usually the case, are very much alike in plumage. 
On their arrival early in April, the black feathers on 
the crown are frequently seen coming out, intermixed 
with the former ash coloured ones. 
This species has all the agility and many of the habits 
of the flycatcher. 
120 . SYLVIA FORMOSA, WILSON. KENTUCKY WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXV. FIG. III. 
This new and beautiful species inhabits the country 
whose name it bears. It is also found generally in all 
the intermediate tracts between Nashville and New 
Orleans, and below that as far as the Balize, or mouths 
of the Mississippi ; where I heard it several times, 
twittering among the high rank grass and low bushes 
of those solitary and desolate looking morasses. In 
Kentucky and Tennesee it is particularly numerous, 
frequenting low, damp woods, and builds its nest in the 
middle of a thick tuft of rank grass, sometimes in the 
fork of a low bush, and sometimes on the ground ; in 
all of which situations I have found it. The materials 
are loose dry grass, mixed with the light pith of weeds, 
and lined with hair. The female lays four, and some- 
times six eggs, pure white, sprinkled with specks of 
reddish. I observed her sitting early in May. This 
species is seldom seen among the high branches ; but 
loves to frequent low bushes and cane swamps, and is 
an active sprightly bird. Its notes are loud, and in 
