. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 198 PRAIRIE WARBLER. r i tenaiitH of the grove; who experience all the ardency of those panflioni no loAH than their lurd and sovereign man. The Kentucky Warhler is five inches and u half long, and eighi 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; tai
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 198 PRAIRIE WARBLER. r i tenaiitH of the grove; who experience all the ardency of those panflioni no loAH than their lurd and sovereign man. The Kentucky Warhler is five inches and u half long, and eighi 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 ; interioi vanes of that an<l the wings dusky; legs an almost transparent pale ilo8h color. 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 Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. I*. Spicies XXVI. SYLVIA MINVTA. PRAIRIE WARBLER. [PUte XXV. Fig. 4.] This pretty little species I first discovered in that singular tract of country in Kentucky, commonly called the IJarreiis. I shot several afterwards in the open woods of the Choctaw nation, where they were more numerous. They ioom to prefer these open plains, ond thinly wooded tracts; and have this singularity in their manners, that they are not ca-sily alarmed; and search among the leaves the most leisurely of any of the tiil)e I have yet met with ; seeming to examine every blade of gra^s, and every leaf; uttering at short intervals a feeble ohirr. I have observed one of thes'c birds to sit on the lower branch of a tree for half an hour at a time, and allow me to come up nearly to the foot of the tree, without seeming to be in the least disturbed, or to dis- continue the regularity of its occasional note. In activity it is the reverse of the preceding species; and is rather a scarce bird in the countries where I found it. Its food consists principally of small ca
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