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SYLVIA MINUTA. 
threes, resembling’ tweedle , tweedle , tweedle. It appears 
in Kentucky from the south about the middle of April ; 
and leaves the territory of New Orleans on the approach 
of cold weather ; at least I was assured that it does not 
remain there during the winter. It appeared to me to 
be a restless, lighting species; almost always engaged 
in pursuing some of its fellows ; though this might 
have been occasioned by its numbers, and the particular 
season of spring, when love and jealousy rage with 
violence in the breasts of the feathered tenants of the 
grove ; who experience all the ardency of those passions 
no less than their lord and sovereign man. 
The Kentucky warbler is live inches and a half long, 
and eight inches in extent ; the upper parts are an 
olive green ; line over the eye and partly under it, and 
whole lower parts, rich brilliant yellow ; head slightly 
crested, the crown deep black, towards the hind part 
spotted with light ash ; lores, and spot curving down 
the neck, also black ; tail nearly even at the end, and 
of a rich olive green ; interior vanes of that and the 
wings, dusky; legs, an almost transparent pale flesh 
colour. 
The female wants the black under the eye, and the 
greater part of that on the crown, having those parts 
yellowish. This bird is very abundant in the moist 
woods along the Tennesee and Cumberland rivers. 
121 . SYLVIA MINUTA, WILSON SYLVIA DISCOLOR, VIEILL. 
PRAIRIE WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXV. FIG. IV. 
This pretty little species I first discovered in that 
singular tract of country in Kentucky, commonly called 
the Barrens. I shot several afterwards in the open 
woods of the Chactaw nation, where they were more 
numerous. They seem to prefer these open plains, and 
thinly wooded tracts ; and have this singularity in their 
manners, that they are not easily alarmed; and search 
among the leaves the most leisurely of any of the tribe 
