PASSERES — SYLVICOLID^E — SYLVICOLA. 9 1 



THE SPOTTED CANADA WARBLER. 



Sylvicola pardalina. 



PLATE LI. FIG. 115 (Female.) 

 (STATE COLLECTION.) 



Motacilla canadensis. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. sp. 27. Pennant, Arot. Zool. Vol. 2, p. 388. 

 Muscicapa id. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 3, p. 100, pi. 26, fig. 2 (male). 

 Sylvia pardalina, Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 79. 

 Muscicapa canadensis. Audubon, fol. pi. 90 ; Orn. Biog. Vol.2, p. 17. 

 8. pardalina, Canada Warbler. Ncttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 1, p. 372. 

 Myiodioctes canadensis. Audubon, B. of A. Vol. 2, p. 14, pi. 72 (male and female). 

 Jf. id., Spotted Canadian Fly-catching Warbler. Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 49. 



Characteristics. Bluish ash, immaculate. Crown streaked with black. Beneath and lores 

 yellow. Breast with a sort of collar of black spots. Length, b\ inches. 



Description. Bill broad at base, distinctly notched and carinate ; 4 - 5 bristles at the base, 

 extending beyond the nostrils. The second and third primaries subequal ; the third slightly 

 longest. Tail emarginate, rounded, nearly two inches long, and 1 • 3 longer than the tips of 

 the folded wings. 



Color. Above, a uniform bluish ash. Wings and tail brown, edged with greyish. Crown 

 with oblong dark streaks ; line under the eye black. Frontlet, line towards the eye yellow. 

 Under tail-coverts white. All beneath bright lemon-yellow. A number of irregular black 

 streaks on the sides of the neck, and over the upper part of the breast, forming a sort of 

 collar. Female, with a tinge of green on the back ; the streaks on the head scarcely con- 

 spicuous : a dark brown dash occasionally beneath the eye. The lemon-color beneath as 

 bright as in the male, but the spots are dull brown and somewhat smaller. 



Length, 4-0-5-0. Alar extent, 8-5-9-0. 



This species is occasionally very rare in New- York, or at least in its southern portions, 

 where our specimens were obtained in the early part of May. In the size of its bill, and the 

 bristles at its base, it differs so much from its congeners as scarcely to satisfy me with its 

 present position. Audubon states that he never met with this bird south of Philadelphia, 

 and that it must be a northern species ; but Vigors observed it in Cuba. It has been observed 

 as high as 55° north, unless Richardson has confounded it with another species. Its history 

 is yet incomplete. 



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