Species XXXIV. SYLVIA MONTANA* 



BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 



[Plate XLIV. Fig. 2, Male.] 



This new species was first discovered near that celebrated ridge, or 

 range of mountains, with whose name I have honored it. Several of 

 these solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned up from the airy 

 heights of our alpine scenery, as well as from the recesses of our swamps 

 and morasses, whither it is my design to pursue them by every oppor- 

 tunity. Some of these I believe rarely or never visit the lower culti- 

 vated parts of the country ; but seem only at home among the glooms 

 and silence of those dreary solitudes. The present species seems of that 

 family, or subdivision of the Warblers, that approach the Flycatcher, 

 darting after flies wherever they see them, and also searching with great 

 activity among the leaves. Its song was a feeble screep, three or four 

 times repeated. 



This species is four inches and three-quarters in length ; the upper 

 parts a rich yellow olive ; front, cheeks and chin yellow, also the sides 

 of the neck ; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky ; 

 vent plain pale yellow ; wings black, first and second row of coverts 

 broadly tipped with pale yellowish white; tertials the same; the rest 

 of the quills edged with whitish ; tail black, handsomely rounded, edged 

 with pale olive ; the two exterior feathers, on each side, white on the 

 inner vanes from the middle to the tips, and edged on the outer side 

 with white ; bill dark brown ; legs and feet purple brown ; soles yellow ; 

 eye dark hazel. 



This was a male. The female I have never seen. 



* Prince Musignano in his Synopsis of the Birds of the United States, see Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., considers this as the Motacilla iigrina, Gmel. Sijst. i., p. 985. 

 If this be correct the following synonymes may be quoted: — Sylvia iigrina, Latb. 

 Jnd. Orn. ii., p. 537. — Vieill. (Ms. de I' Am. Sept. pi. 94. — Ficedula Canadensis 

 fusca, Briss. III., p. 515, 63, t. 27, f. 4. — Id. 8vo. i., p. 451. — Le Fiynier tacheU de 

 jaune, Buff, v., p. 293. — Spotted Yellow Flycatcher, Arct. Zool. n.. No. 302. — Edw. 

 pi. 257.— Lath. Syn. iv., p. 482, 106. 



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