SPECIES 34. SYLVM MONTANA* 



BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 



[Plate XL1V. Fig. 2. Male.] 



THIS new species was first discovered near that celebrated 

 ridge, or range of mountains, with whose name I have honour- 

 ed it. Several of these solitary Warblers remain yet to be glean- 

 ed 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 opportunity. Some of these I 

 believe rarely or never visit the lower cultivated 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 Fly- 

 catcher, 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, streak- 

 ed with black or dusky; vent plain pale yellow; wings black, 

 first and second row of coverts broadly tipt with pale yellow- 

 ish 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 



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

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. considers this as the Motacilla tigrina, GMKL. Syst. 

 i, j. 985. If this be correct the following synonymes maybe quoted: Sylvia 

 tigrina, LATH. Jnd. Orn. n, p. 537. VIZILL. Ois. de I'Am. Sept.pl. 94. Fice- 

 dula Canadensisfusca, BRISS. m, p. 515, 63, t. 27, /. 4. Id- 8vo. i, p. 451. 

 Le Figuicr lachete de jottne, BUFF, v, p. 293. Spotted yellow Flycatcher, Arct. 

 Zool. n, JVb, 302. EDW. pi. 257. LATH. Syn. iv, p. 482, 106. 



