BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 295 



figure was taken from a specimen lent to me by the Council of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society of London, and which had come from California. 



Alexander Wilson, to whom we are indebted for our knowledge 

 of this pretty bird, says that it " was first discovered near that cele- 

 brated ridge, or range of mountains, with whose name I have honoured 

 it. Several of these solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned 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 pm'sue 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 gloom and silence of those dreary solitudes. The present species 

 seems of that family, or subdivision, of the Warblers, that approach 

 the Flycatchers, 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, streaked with black or dusky ; 

 vent plain pale yellow ; wings black ; first and second row of coverts 

 broadly tipped with pale yellowish-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 in- 

 ner vanes from the middle to the tips, and edged on the outer side with 

 white ; bill dark brown, legs and feet purple-brown ; soles yellow ; eye 

 dark hazel. 



" This was a male. The female I have never seen." 



Blue Mountain Warbler, Slyvia Montana, Wits. Amer. Ornith. vol. v. p. 113. 



pi. 44, fig. 2. 

 Sylvia tigrina, CJi. Bonaparte, Synopsis, p. 82 ; but not of GhnetAn or Latham. 

 Blue-Mountain Warbler, NiiMcdl, Manual, vol. i. p. 393. 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXXXIV. Fig. 3. 



Bill of moderate length, slender, tapering, broader than high at the 

 base, with the ridge rather distinct, the sides sloping and a little con- 

 vex, the edges sharp, somewhat arched, those of the upper mandible 

 without notch, its tip slightly declinate. 



Head of moderate size, ovate ; neck short. Feet rather short ; 

 tarsus short, slender, much compressed, with seven anterior scutella, 

 and two lateral plates forming a thin edge behind ; toes rather short, 



