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BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 



Sylvia Montana, Wilson. 



PLATE CCCCXXXIV. Male. 



It is somewhat strange, that among the numerous species of birds 

 that visit the United States, a few should have been met with only in 

 single instances. The present Warbler is in this predicament, as are 

 the Carbonated Warbler and Cuvier's Wren, of which it does not ap- 

 pear that a specimen has been obtained excepting those from which 

 their figures and descriptions were taken. For many years I never met 

 with Bewick's Wren, which is now, however, known to be abundant on 

 the mountains of Virginia, and elsewhere in our Middle and Southern 

 Districts, and still more so along the Columbia River. The same was 

 the case with Henslow's Bunting, which has become a common bird in 

 the State of New Jersey, where it breeds, and in South Carolina and 

 the Floridas, where it spends the winter. Of Townsend's Bunting the 

 only specimen as yet procured is in my possession ; and it is only of 

 late years that Macgillivray's Finch has appeared in numbers in the 

 neighboiu-hood of Charleston. Swainson's Warbler, at one time scarce 

 in South Carolina, where it was discovered by my good friend Dr Bach- 

 man, has since been procured as far eastward as the vicinity of Boston 

 by Thomas M. Brewer junior, Esq. The Pipirie Flycatcher was not 

 known to exist eastward of the Floridas until after I had found it 

 there, although now it is not a scarce species, being found breeding 

 in the very heart of the city of Charleston. Traill's Flycatcher, 

 which I first discovered on the Arkansaw River, is now known to 

 abound on the Columbia River. No other person has observed the 

 Rocky Movmtain Wren in any part of the country eastward of that 

 great chain besides Dr Bachman, who shot one within a few miles of 

 Charleston. I might mention several other species, which at one time 

 were extremely rare in the United States, but are now abundant in 

 many of our districts ; but prefer returning to the Blue-Mountain 

 Warbler, which it has not been my good fortune to meet with, although 

 it would be in no degree surprising to find it a constant visitor to some 

 portions of our vast country yet untrodden by the ornithologist. My 



