TENNESEE WARBLER. 
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exactly of this form. The habits of these birds partake 
a good deal of those of the titmouse ; and, in their 
language and action, they very much resemble them. 
All that can be said of this species is, that it appears ih 
Pennsylvania for a few days, about the last of April or 
beginning of May, darting actively among the young 
leaves and opening buds, and is rather a scarce species. 
The golden- winged warbler is five inches long, and 
seven broad ; the crown, golden yellow ; the first and 
second row of wing-coverts, of the same rich yellow j 
the rest of the upper parts, a deep ash, or dark slate 
colour; tail, slightly forked, and, as well as the wings, 
edged with whitish ; a black band passes through the 
eye, and is separated from the yellow of the crown by 
a fine line of white ; chin and throat, black, between 
which and that passing through the eye runs a strip of 
white ; belly and vent, white ; bill, black, gradually 
tapering to a sharp point ; legs, dark ash ; irides, hazel. 
Pennant has described this species twice, first, as the 
golden-winged warbler, and, immediately after, as the 
yellow-fronted warbler. 
136 . SYLVIA PEREGRIN A, WILSON. -—TENNESEE WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXY. FIG. II. 
This plain little bird has hitherto remained unknown. 
I first found it on the banks of Cumberland river, in 
the State of Tennesee, and suppose it to be rare, having 
since met with only two individuals of the same species. 
It was hunting nimbly among the young leaves, and, 
like all the rest of the family of worm-eaters, to which, 
by its bill, it evidently belongs, seemed to partake a 
good deal of the habits of the titmouse. Its notes werje 
few and weak ; and its stomach, on dissection, contained 
small green caterpillars, and a few winged insects. 
As this species is so very rare in the United States, 
it is most probably a native of a more southerly climate, 
where it may be equally numerous with any of the rest 
of its genus. The small cerulean warbler, which, in 
