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THE BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 



Sylvia maculosa, Lath. 



PLATE L. YouKG Male. 



This little bird was by mistake engraved, and named after my friend 

 W. SwAiNsoN, Esq., during my absence from London, one drawing 

 having been accidentally substituted for another. It is in reality the 

 young of the Black and Yellow Warbler, and was intended to form part 

 of the Plate which will represent the adult male and female of that spe- 

 cies. My good friend will, I know, excuse this mistake, as I have 

 honoured a beautiful new species with his name. 



It being more consistent with my present arrangement to give a full 

 account of each species, as it is represented in the Plate allotted to it, 

 and its different states of plumage, as much as this object .can be attained, 

 you will permit me, kind reader, to postpone the habits of this species un- 

 til you see the whole group together. In the mean time, I shall confine 

 myself to a description of the immature state of plumage as represented 

 in my illustrations. 



Sylvia maculosa, Lath. Ind. Omith. vol. iL p. 536. — Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of 



Birds of the United States, p. 78. 

 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Lath. Synops. voL iv. p. 481. 

 Black and Yellow AVarbler, Sylvia magnolia, WUs. Americ. Omith. vol. iii. 



p. 63. PL 23, Male. 



Young Male. Plate L. 



Bill brown above, brownish-yellow beneath. Iris dark hazel. Feet 

 brownish-yellow, claws yellow. Head and hind-neck light greyish-blue, 

 blending into yellowish-green on the back, the lower part of which is 

 spotted with black ; a broad band across the rump yellow, the upper 

 tail-coverts black. Wings bluish-grey when closed, the outer webs being 

 of that colour, the inner brownish-black ; tips of the two larger rows of 

 coverts white, forming two bands of that colour. Tail black, with a 

 broad band of white in the middle, on the inner webs, excepting on the 

 two middle feathers, which are margined with blue, the outer webs of the 

 other feathers being bluish-white ; the under parts are ochre-yellow, the 



