|Family VIII. SYLVICOLINAE. WOOD-WARBLERS. GENUS III. TRICHAS,
Swains. GROUND-WARBLER. [MacGillivray's Warbler (see also
Macgillivray's Ground-Warbler).] |Genus||TRICHAS PHILADELPHIA,
Wils. Although this beautiful species has been met with in
various portions of our eastern maritime districts, it cannot be
said to be an abundant one; and no one has, as yet, been able to
discover its nest. Several of my ornithological friends have
supplied me with specimens procured in the neighbourhood of New
York, Philadelphia, and in the mountainous parts of Vermont; all
these were found during the spring and summer months, none
having been seen during the autumn; where, on the contrary, the
Connecticut Warbler is plentiful. The habits of the Mourning
Warbler resemble, considerably, those of the Maryland Yellow-
throat, and other birds of the genus trichas, keeping in low
thickets, among the branches of which it hops, as well as on the
ground. Its flight also resembles that of the bird above
mentioned. So curiously and cauti