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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



DENDEOICA MACULOSA, Baird. 



)llack and Yellow Warbler. 



MolacMla maculosa , Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 984. 



S-ijlvxa maculosa, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 536. — Vieillot, Oia. Am. Sept. II, 1S07 ; pi. xciii. — Bonap. Obs. 



Wils. 182G, No. 150.— NijTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 370.— Acd. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 260.— II, 



1834, 145: V, 1839, 4.58; pi. 1, cxxiii. 

 SjJwtcoJa mncu/oso, Sw. F. Bor. Ann. II, 1831.- Bonap. Liist, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 307.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 



61.— Ib. Birds a .er. II, 1841, 65; pi. xcvi. 

 lihimanjiUus maculoms, Cab. Mua. Hein. 1851, 20. — Ib. Journ. Orn. Ill, 1855, 474, (Cuba). 

 Sylvia inagnolia, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 63; pi. x.xiii, f. 3. 



Sp. Ch. — Jl/o/e, in spring-.— Bill dark bluisli black, ratlicr liglitcr beneath. Tail dusky. Top of head light grayish blue. 

 Front, lore, cheek, and a stripe under the eye, black, running into a large triangular patch on the back between the wings, 

 which is also black. Eyelids and a stripe from the eye along the bead white. Ujjper tail coverts black, some of the feathers 

 tipped with grayish. Abdomen and lower tail covcrls white. Rump and under parts, except as described, yellow. Lower 

 throat, breast, and sides streaked with black ; the streaks closer on the lower throat and fore breast. Lessor wing coverts, and 

 edges of the wing anil tail bluish gray, the former spotted with black. Quills and tail almost black ; the latter with a stpiaro 

 patth of whila on the inner webs of all the tail leathers (Imt the two inner) beyond the midiilc of the tail. Two white bands 



