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U. S. p. R E.- EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



DENDKOICA C^RULEA, Baird. 



Blue Warbler. 



Sylvia carulea, Wilsow, Am. Cm. II, 1810, 141 ; pi. xvii, f. 5. 



Syhicola cmrulea, " SwAI^fSON," Jard. ed. Wilson, 1832. — Rich. List, 1837. — Bonjip. List, 1838. — Is. Consp. 1850, 



308.— AuD. Synop. 1839, 56 — Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 45 ; pi. 86. 

 Sylvia rara, Wilson, Am. Cm. HI, 1811, 119; pi. xxvii, f. 2, (young or female.) — Bonap. Obs. 1826, No. 158.— 



AuD. Cm. Biog. I, 1832, 258 ; pi. 49.— Nuttall, I, 1832, 255. 

 Vermivora rara, Jardine, Ed. Wilson, 1832. 

 Sylvia azurea, Stephens, in Shaw's Zool. Birds, X, ii, 1817, 653.— Eon. Obs. 1826, 148.— Ib. Am. Orn. II, 1828; 



pi. xxvii, (female.) — Add. Orn Biog. I, 1832, 255 ; pi. xlviii, xlix. — Nhttall, Man. I, 1832, 407. 

 Sylvia Ufasciata, Sat, Long's Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 170. 



Sp. Ch. — Male — Above bright blue, darkest on the crown, tinged with ash on the rump ; middle of back, scapulars, upper 

 tail coverts, and sides of the crown streaked with black. Beneath white, a collar across the breast, and streaks on the sides 

 dusky blue. Lores, and a line through and behind the eye, (where it is bordered above by whitish,) dusky blue ; paler on the 

 cheeks. Two white bands on the wings. All the tail feathers except the innermost, with a white patch on the inner web near 

 the end. Female greenish blue above, brightest on the crown ; beneath white, tinged with greenish yellow, and obsoletely 

 streaked on the sides ; eyelids and a superciliary line greenish white. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.65 j tail, 1.90. 



Hob. — Eastern United States to the Missouri river. 



This species is sufficiently dissimilar from any other not to require a more minute description 

 than the above. 



List of specimens. 



DENDROICA STRIATA, Baird. 



Black Poll Warbler. 



Muscicapa striata, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 428.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 930. 



Motacilla striata, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 976. 



Sylvia striata. Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 527.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 22 ; pi. Ixxv, Ixxvi.— Wilson, Am. 



Orn. IV, 1811, 40 ; pi. xxx, f 3 : VI, 1812, 101 ; pi. liv.— Bon. Obs. Wils. 1826, No. 162.— Ndttall, 



Man. I, 1832, 383.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 201 ; pi. 133. 

 Syhicola striata, Swainson, P. B. Am. II, 1831, 218.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 308.— Aud. Birds 



Am. II, 1841, 28 ; pi. 78 — Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73. (Greenland.) 

 Rhimanphua striatus, Cab. Mus, Hein. 1850, 20. — Ib. Journ. fiir Orn. Ill, 1855, 475, (Cuba.) 



Sp. Ch. — Male — Crown, nape, and upper half of the head black ; the lower half, including the ear coVerts, white, the 

 separating line passing through the middle of the eye. Rest of upper parts grayish ash, tinged with brown, and conspicuously 

 streaked with black. Wing and tail feathers brown, odged^.externally (except the inner tail feathers) with dull olive green. 

 Two conspicuous bars of white on the wing coverts, the tertials edged with the same. Under parts white, with a narrow line 



