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was secured May 22, 1875, within a few yards of the spot where the first 
was captured, in a low thicket of young blackberry bushes. It was 
eatching insects on the wing in a rather awkward manner, its actions 
much resembling those of a Bluebird similarly engaged. 
Mr. Read seems to have been more fortunate in an opportunity of ob- 
serving the habits of this species in summer than other writers. His 
statement confirms that of Dr. Turnbull in regard to this species spending 
the summer in the latitude of Pennsylvania. He says (1. c. Fam. Vis.) : 
‘‘'This species is described as very rare, but for two summers past I have noticed it as 
very abundant in a field of dense brambles, in Andover, Ashtabula conuty. Ia its 
habits it resembles the preceeding (Trichas marylandica), or rather the peculiar habits of 
~ the genus are strikingly exhibited in this species. When first discovered, although 
there was no difficulty in finding it, it was several days before I could obtain a specimen 
fit for examination; from its restless, ickle movements it was difficult to shoot, and 
the first two or three obtained were torn completely to shieds from being within eight 
or ten feet of the muzzle of the gun when shot. This was indeed the greatest difficulty, 
for I could scarcely see ene, so constantly were they at work beneath ihe thick foliage, 
anless ib were almost under my nose. They undoubtedly nest with us in considerable 
nuiubers.” ; 
The nest and eggs have never been discovered. 
OPORORNIS FOoRMUsUS (Wils.) Bd. 
; Kentucky Warbler. 
Sylvia formosa, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog, i, 1831, 190. 
Myiodiocies formosus, AUDUBON, b. Am., 11, Le4), 19. 
Sylvicola formosa, Ruap, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 42; Proe Phila. Acad, Nat Sci, vi, 1853, 
395. 
Oporornis formosus, WHWATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1661, 5; Focd of 
Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; Reprint, 1875, 4.--Bairp, BREwur, and 
RipGway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 295.—LANGDON,, Cat. Birds of Cin,, 1877, 6; Revised 
List, Joarn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, 1679, 172; Reprint, 6; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 
1879, 236. 
Kentucky Warbler, Kirrianp, Am. Journ. Sei. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 2le. 
Sylvia formosa, WILSON, Am. Orn, iii, L811, 85. 
Sylvicola formosa, JARDINE, ‘ Ed. Wilson, 1232.” 
Mytodioctes formosus, AUDUBON, Syn., 1839, 50. 
Oporornis formosus, BAIRD, Birds N. Am., 1858, 247. 
Clear olive-green; entire under parts bright yellow, olive-shaded along sides; crown 
black, separated by a rich yellow superciliary line (which curls around the eye behind) 
from a broad black bar running from bill below eye, and thence down the side of the 
neck; wiugs and tail unmarked, glossed with olive; feet flesh color; of; wing 23-3; 
tail 2-27. Young birds have the black obscure, if net wanting; in the fall, the black 
feathers in the crown of the adult are skirted with ash. 
Habitat, Eastern Province of the United States, especially in the Mississippi Valley ; 
north to the Connecticut Valley; west to Kansas and the Indian Territory; south through 
Mexico and Central America. Cuba. 
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