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SYLVIA CHRYSOPTERA. 
however, is a much larger bird; is of a dark yellow 
olive above, and orange yellow below; has all the habits 
of a creeper, alighting on the trunks of the pine trees, 
running nimbly round them, and, according to Mr Abbot, 
builds a pensile nest. I observed thousands of them in 
the pine woods of Carolina and Georgia, where they 
are resident, but have never met with them in any part 
of Pennsylvania. 
This species is live inches and a half long, and seven 
and a half broad ; hind head, and whole back, a rich 
green olive ; crown and front, orange yellow ; whole 
lower parts, yellow, except the vent feathers, which 
are white ; bill, black above, lighter below ; lores, black ; 
the form of the bill approximates a little to that of the 
finch ; wings and tail, deep brown, broadly edged with 
pale slate, which makes them appear wholly of that 
tint, except at the tips ; first and second row of coverts 
tipt with wdiite slightly stained with yellow ; the three 
exterior tail feathers have their inner vanes nearly all 
white ; legs, pale bluish ; feet, dirty yellow ; the two 
middle tail feathers are pale slate. The female differs 
very little in colour from the male. 
This species very much resembles the prothonotary 
warbler of Pennant and Buffon ; the only difference I 
can perceive, on comparing specimens of each, is, that 
the yellow of the prothonotary is more of an orange 
tint, and the bird somewhat larger. 
135 . SYLVIA CHRYSOPTERA , LATHAM AND WILSON. 
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XV. FIG. VI. — MALE. 
This is a spring passenger through the United States 
to the north. From the particular form of its bill, it 
ought rather to be separated from the warblers ; or, 
along with several others of the same kind, might be 
arranged as a subgenera, or particular family of that 
tribe, which might with propriety be called w^orm-eaters, 
the motacilla vermivora of Turton having the bill 
