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WHITE-POLL WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia varia.) 



SY. albo nigroque maculata, fasciis duabus alarum albis, cauda 



furcata. 

 Warbler spotted with black and white, with two white bars on 



the wings, and the tail forked. 

 Sylvia varia. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 539- 118. 

 Motacilla varia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 333. 23.-~Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.979- 



Ficedula dominicensis varia. Briss. Orn. 3. 529. 69. pi. IJ.f. 5. 

 Figuier varie de St. Domingue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 305. 

 Black and White Creeper. Edwards. Glean.pl, 300. 

 White-poll Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2> 402. ZQS.Lath. Gen. 



Syn.4. 488. 114. 



FOUND in many parts of North America and 

 the West Indies : it is the size of the Blackcap : 

 length nearly five inches : beak dusky : crown of 

 the head white ; the sides black, with two streaks 

 of white: the back, rump, and throat, white, varied 

 with large black spots : wing-coverts black, with 

 two white bands : quills dusky, edged with grey : 

 some of them nearest the body are nearly white : 

 breast and sides white, spotted with black : belly 

 white : tail slightly forked, dusky, edged out- 

 wardly with grey, and the exterior feathers whitish 

 on the inside: legs greenish brown. 



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