. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. brood, I believe, e from that of the trifid branch (not ir bark erpiilara' silk, and iipltaliitm planta- 1 {Af>:rostis — sp.) hiirp at the lesser and others of two rous at the great m1 together into a bon, like that of s, or 3 or 4 blades grey lichens. The :d by Wilson and my opportunity for h\ to preclude the I); neither can I !s to any whirring iroach to the song part of Massachu- iu May, and, ac- id Mr. Cooper, are he vicinity of New md retire to winter of September. iiglli, and 7 in
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. brood, I believe, e from that of the trifid branch (not ir bark erpiilara' silk, and iipltaliitm planta- 1 {Af>:rostis — sp.) hiirp at the lesser and others of two rous at the great m1 together into a bon, like that of s, or 3 or 4 blades grey lichens. The :d by Wilson and my opportunity for h\ to preclude the I); neither can I !s to any whirring iroach to the song part of Massachu- iu May, and, ac- id Mr. Cooper, are he vicinity of New md retire to winter of September. iiglli, and 7 in alar ^eu, and mingled with tlie olive strils, over and under ellow ; vent pale yel- ith pale yellow ; quilla PARTICOLORED WARBLER, OR FINCH CREEPER. 397 PARTICOLORED WARBLER, or FINCH CREEPER. (Sylvia amtricana, Lath. Aitdubon, pi. 13. Orn. Biog. i. p. 78. S. pusilla, Wilson, iv. p. 17. pi. 28. fig. 3. Phil. Museum, No. 6910.) Sp. Charact. — Dusky blue ; interscapular region brownish yel- low olive; throat and lower mandible yellow; belly white; wings with 2 white bars ; lateral tail-feathers marked interiorly with white. —JIfa/e with a black crescent, and with the breast tinged with, orange. — Female without the crescent and orange color on the breast. — Young, brownish-grey ; beneath muddy white. ^ This remarkable species visits the Middle and North- ern States about the 1st to the 15th of May, and is seen again early in October on its way to the West Indies (St. Domingo and Porto Rico), whither it retires at the approach of winter. A few, according to Catesby, pass the whole year in South Carolina. It is very abundant in the summer in the woods of Kentucky ; is active and restless on its first arrival, and frequents the summits of the highest trees, being particularly fond of the small cat- erpillars and flies of various kinds, which are, in the early part of spring, attracted to the opening blossoms and tender shoots. It also possesses in some de
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