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



DENDKOICA C^RULEA, Baird. 



Blue Warbler. 



Sylvia cccrulea, Wilson, Am. Orn. H, 1810, 141 ; pi. xvii, f 5. 



Sylvicola carulea, " Swainson," Jard. cd. Wilson, 1832 — Rich. List, 1837. — Bonap. List, 1838. — 1b. Consp. 1850, 



308.— AuD. Synop. 1839, 56 — Ib. Birds Amcr 11, 1841, 45 ; pi. 86. 

 Stjlria rara, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 119; pi. x.xvii, f. 2, (young or female.)— Bonap. Obs. 1826, No. 158. — 



Add. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 258 ; pi. 49.— Nuttall, I, 1832, 255. 

 Ve-nnirora rara, Jardine, Ed. Wilson, 1832. 

 Syhia azurea, Stephens, in Shaw's Zool. Birds, X, ii, 1817, 653.— Bon. Obs. 1826, 148.— Ib. Am. Orn. II, 1828; 



pi. xxvU, (female.)— AuD. Orn Biog. I, 1832,255 ; pi. xlviii,xlix. — Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 407. 

 Sylvia hifasciala, Sat, Long's Exped. R. Mis. I, 1823, 170. 



Sp. Ch. — Male — Above bright blue, darkest on the crown, tinged with ash on the rump ; middle of back, scapulars, upper 

 tail coverts, and sides of the crown streaked with black. Beneath white, a collar across the breast, and streaks on the sides 

 dusky blue. Lores, and a line through and behind the eye, (where it is bordered above by whitish,) dusky blue ; paler on the 

 cheeks. Two while bands on tiie wings. All liie tail fealiiers except the innermost, with a wliile patcli on the inner web near 

 the end. Female greenish blue above, brightest on the crown ; beneath white, tinged with greenish yellow, and obsoletely 

 streaked on the sides ; eyelids and a superciliary line greenish white. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.65 ; tail, 1.90. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri river. 



This species is sufficiently dissimilar from any other not to rec[uire a more minute description 

 than the above. 



List of specimens. 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pa 



Eockport, Ohio.. 

 Cleveland, Ohio- 

 South Illinois 



-do. 



St. Louis, Mo- 

 do 



When collected. 



May 9, 1842.. 

 May 15, 1852 . 



May 9 



May 9 



May 15, 1857. 

 May 12, 1857 . 



Whence obtained. 



S. F. Baird. -. 

 J. P Kirtland. 

 do 



R. Kennicott. 

 do 



Lieut. Bryan, 

 do 



Orig. 

 No. 



Collected by- 



96 I W. S. Wood . 

 52 ' do 



DENDROICA STRIATA, Baird. 



Black Poll Warbler. 



MtKcicapa striata, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 428.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1738, 930. 



J\IolaciHa striata, G.melin, Syst. 1, 1788, 976. 



Sylvia striata, Lath. Ind, Orn. II, 1790, 527. — Vieillot, Ois. Am Sept. II, 1807, 22 ; pi. Isxv, Ixxvi. — Wilson, Am. 



Orn. IV, 1811, 40 ; pi. xxx, f 3 : VI, 1812, 101 ; pi. liv.— Bon. Obs. Wils. 1826, No. 162.— Ncttall, 



Man. I, 1832, 383.— Al-d. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 201 ; pi. 133. 

 Sylvicola striata, Swainson, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 218.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 308.— Arn. Birds 



Am. II, 1841, 28 ; pi. 78 — Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73. (Greenland.) 

 Rliimavphus striatus. Cab. Mus. Hcin. 1850, 20. — Ib. Journ fiir Orn. Ill, 1855, 475, (Cuba.) 



Sp. Ch. Male — Crown, nape, and upper half of the head black ; the lower l.alf, including the ear coverts, white, the 



separating line passing through the middle of the eye. Rest of upper parts grayish ash, tinged with brown, and conspicuously 

 streaked with black. Wing and tail feathers brown, edged externally (except the inner tail feathers) with dull olive green. 

 Two conspicuous bars of while on the wing coverts, the tertials edged with the same. Under parts white, with a narrow lino 



