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SylTla magnolia, Wils. AO. iii. ISll, 63, pi. ^.—Steph. Gen. Zool. x. 1817, 604.— Bp. Joarn. 



Phila. Acad. iv. 18-24, 194. 

 Tellow-rumpefl Flycatcher, Hdw. pi. 255. 

 Figuier a tete cendrce. Buff. "Oi.s. v. 291". 

 Figuter tacbet6 de Pensilyanie, Ficedula pensilvanica nievia, Briss. Orn. iii. 50-2, n. 50 



(quotes Edw. pi. 255). 

 Tellow-ruinped Warbler, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 



481, n. 104. 

 Yellow-rump Warbler, Penn. AZ. ii. 400, n. 288 



(a basis of M. maculosa Gra. ; not to be con- 

 founded with Yellow-rump of modern writers, 



which is D. coronata). — Sw. <6 Rich. FBA. 1. c. 

 Fauvette ^ tete cendree, V. N. D. d'H. N. xi. 1817 



223 ; Ency. M6th. ii. 1823, 427. 

 Spotted Warbler, Peab. l. c.—Nutt. 1. c. 

 Bee-fin ^ tfete cendree, D'Orfe. i.e. 

 Black-and-ycllow Warbler, Authors. Fig. 37.— Black-and-yellow Warbler. 



Hab. — Eastern Province of North America. North to Labrador, Hudson's 

 Bay, Great Slave Lake, «fec. South through Eastern Mexico and Central 

 America to New Granada. West to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Cuba 

 and the Bahamas. Breeds from New England northward, and probably 

 farther south in elevated portions of the United States. Winters extralimita.l. 



Ch. sp. — S ? Dorso nigro, plus minusve olivaceo tincto ; uro- 

 pygio Jlavo ; vertice cinereo ; lateribus capitis cum fronte angus 

 tissimd nigris, palpebris et strigd postoculari albis ; gastrwo flavo, 

 crisso albo, pectore laterihusqiie nigro striatis ; alis cauddque ni- 

 gricantibus, illis spcculo albo, rectricibus maculis albis quadratis. 



2 , in spring : Back black, usually quite pure and uninterrupted in the 

 ^ , more or less mixed with olive in the $ ; rump yellow ; ujiper tail-coverts 

 black, often skirted with olive or ashy. Whole crown of head clear ash ; 

 sides of head black, including a very narrow frontlet; the eyelids and a 

 stripe behind the eye, between the ash and black, white. Entire under parts 

 rich yellow, excepting the white crissum, hea.vily streaked with black across 

 the breast and along the sides, the streaks on the breast so thick as to form a 

 nearly continuous black border to the immaculate yellow throat. Wings 

 fuscous, with white lining, white edging of the inner webs of all the quills, 

 of the outer webs of the inner secondaries, and with a large white patch 

 formed by the tips of the median coverts and tips and outer edges of the 

 greater coverts. Tail blackish, with square white spots on the middle of 

 the inner webs of all the feathers excepting the middle pair. Bill blackish ; 

 feet dark. Length, 4|-5 ; extent, 7-7^ ; wing, 2^-2^ ; tail, 2-2^. 



Young: Upper parts ashy-olive, becoming grayer on the head; rump as 

 yellow as in the adult. No decided head-markings ; a whitish ring round the 

 eye. Below yellow, generally continuous, but sometimes incomplete, being 

 partially replaced by gray ; black streaks wanting or few, and confined 

 chiefly to the sides. Wings with two whitish bars. Tail-spots as in the adult. 



While the sexes of the adult of this beautiful species are quite similar, 

 dififering mainly in the less extent and purity of the black on the back, the 

 young are quite different; but may always be recognized by the yellow 

 rump, in connection with the extensively or completely yellow under parts, 

 and small, square, white tail-spots remote from the ends of the feathers. 



