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



List of specimens. 



DENDEOICA MACULOSA, Baird. 



Black and Yellow Warbler. 



Motacilla maculosa, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 984. 



Sylvia maculosa, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 536. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807; pi. xciii. — Bonap. Obs. 



Wils. 1826, No. 150.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 370.— Add. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 260.— II, 



1834, 145 : V, 1839, 458 ; pi. 1, cxxiii. 

 Sylmcola maculosa, Sw. P. Bor. Am. II, 1831.— Boktap. List, 1838.— Is. Consp. 1850, 307. — Aud. Syn. 1839, 



61.— 1b. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 65 ; pi. xcvi. 

 Rhimanjihus maculosus. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 20. — Is. Journ. Orn. Ill, 1855, 474, (Cuba). 

 Sylvia magnolia, Wilson, Am. Oni. Ill, 1811, 63 ; pi. xxiii, f. 3. 



Sp. Ch. — Male, in spring. — Bill dark bluish black, rather lighter beneath . Tail dusky. Top of head light grayish blue . 

 Front, lore, cheek, and a stripe under the eye, black, running into a large triangular patch on the back between the wings, 

 which is also black. Eyelids and a stripe from the eye along the head white. Upper tail coverts black, some of the feathers 

 tipped with grayish. Abdomen and lower tail coverls white. Rump and under parts, except as described , yellow. Lower 

 throat, breast, and sides streaked with black ; the streaks closer on the lower throat and fore breast. Lesser wing coverts, and 

 edges of the wing and tall bluish gray, the former spotted with black. Quills and tail almost black ; the latter with a square 

 patch of white on the inner webs of all the tail feathers (but the two inner) beyond the middle of the tail . Two white bands 



