SPECIES 19. SYLVIA MAGNOLIA* 



BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 



[Plate XXIII. Fig. 2, Male.] 



PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 7783. 



THIS bird I first met with on the banks of the Little Miami, 

 near its junction with the Ohio. I afterwards found it among the 

 magnolias, not far from fort Adams on the Mississippi. These 

 two, both of which happened to be males, are all the individu- 

 als I have ever shot of this species; from which I am justified 

 in concluding it to be a very scarce bird in the United States. 

 Mr. Peale, however, has the merit of having been the first to 

 discover this elegant species, which he informs me he found 

 several years ago not many miles from Philadelphia. No notice 

 has ever been taken of this bird by any European naturalist 

 whose works I have examined. Its notes, or rather chirpings, 

 struck me as very peculiar and characteristic; but have no claim 

 to the title of song. It kept constantly among the higher branch- 

 es, and was very active and restless. 



Length five inches, extent seven inches and a half; front, lores, 

 and behind the ear, black; over the eye a fine line of white, and 

 another small touch of the same immediately under; back near- 

 ly all black; shoulders thinly streaked with olive; rump yellow; 

 tail coverts jet black; inner vanes of the lateral tail feathers 

 white to within half an inch of the tip where they are black; 

 two middle ones wholly black; whole lower parts rich yellow, 



* Molacilla maculosa, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 984. Sylvia maculosa, LATH. Ind. Orn. 

 11, p. 536. VIEILLOT, Oisde VJlm. Sept. pi. 93.Ficedula pensylvanica n<evia, 

 Bmss. in, p. 502, 56. Le Figuier a tete cendree, BUFF, v, p. 291. Yellow- 

 rwnped Flycatcher, EDW. Glean, pi. 255.Yellow-rumped warbler, PEXN. Ant. 

 Zool. u, 288. LATH. Syn. iv, p, 481. 104. 



