36 TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. 



and the upper tail-coverts are barred and tipped with white. The 

 tail is brownish-black, with two broad bands of white, the one at the 

 base, the other terminal. 



Length to end of tail 24 inches ; bill along the ridge 1{§ ; cere t'j ; 

 wing from flexure 15;^ ; tail 10^ ; tarsus 3i\ ; hind toe 1^%, its claw lj% ; 

 second toe 1^^^, its claw 1^*^ ; third toe 2, its claw U ; fourth toe 1/^, 

 its claw j%. 



TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. 



Sylvia Townsendi, Nuttall. 



PLATE CCCXCIII. Male. 



Me Nuttall has honoured this beautiful Warbler with the name 

 of his friend and companion Dr Town send. It was procured about 

 the Columbia River. All the information respecting it that I possess 

 is contained in the following brief notice by the former of these cele- 

 brated naturalists. " Of this fine species, we know very little, it being 

 one of those transient visitors, which, on their way to the north, merely 

 stop a few days to feed and recruit, previous to their arrival in the 

 higher latitudes, or afterwai'ds disperse in pairs, and are lost sight of 

 till the returning wants and famine of the season impel them again to 

 migrate, when, falling on the same path, they are seen in small silent 

 flocks advancing toward the retreat they seek out for their temporary 

 residence. As this species frequents the upper parts of the lofty firs, 

 it was almost an accident to obtain it at all. The female remains 

 unknown." 



Sylvia Townsendi, {Nuttall), Townsend's Warbler, Towns. Journal of Acad, of 

 Nat. Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. vii. p. 191. 



Adult Male in Autumn. Plate CCCXCIIL Fig. 1. 

 The specimen here described was shot by Dr Townsend on the 

 28th October 1835, on the Columbia River, and is in perfect plumage. 



