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is a male, shot in the month^ of July, and possibly not adult ; as it is 

 the only one brought by Major Long's party, we cannot determine the 

 extent or nature of the variations the species may undergo from age, 

 sex, or season. 



The note of this bird is peculiar, resembling the harsh voice of the 

 Terns. It inhabits the sterile country bordering on the river Arkansas, 

 in the neighborhood of the Rocky Mountains, where it is frequently 

 observed hopping .on the ground, or flitting among the branches and 

 weather-beaten, half-reclining trunks of a species of Juniper ; when it 

 flies among the crooked limbs of this tree it spreads its tail considerably, 

 but was never seen to climb. They were generally observed in small 

 associations of five or six individuals, perhaps composing single families. 



SYLVIA CHRrSOPTEUA. 



FEMALE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.* 



[Plate I. Fig. 3.] 



Mbiacilla chrysoptera, Linn. Syst. i., p. 333, Sp. 20. Gmel. Sysi. i., p. 971, Sp. 20, 

 Male. — Sylvia chrysoptera, Lath. Ind, p. 541, Sp. 123. Vieill. (Ms. de V Am. 

 Sept. II., p. 37, pi. 97, Male. — Motacillaflavifron.i, Gmel. Syst. i., p. 976, Sp. 126, 

 Male. — Sylvia flavifrons, Lath. Ind. p. 527, Sp. 69, Male. — Ficedula Pensylvanica 

 cinerea gutture nigra, Brisson, Av. Suppl. p. 109, Sp. 80, Male. — Figuier aux 

 (Ales dories, Bufe. Ois. v., p. 311, Male. — Golden-winged Flycatcher, Edwards, 

 Glean, ii., 189, pi. 299, Male. — Gold-winged Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 295. 

 Lath. Syn. ii., Part ii., p. 492, Sp. 118, Male. — Yellow-fronted Warbler, Penn. 

 Arct. Zool. Sp. 296. Lath. Syn. ii., Part ii., p. 461, Sp. 67, Male. — Parus alis 

 aureis, the Golden-winged Flycatcher, Bartram, Trav. p. 292, Male. 



The female of this pretty little Warbler, hitherto unknown to any 

 naturalist, is now figured and described for the first time. For the 

 opportunity of presenting it to the reader, we are indebted to Mr. 

 Titian Peale, who shot it on the twenty-fourth of May, near Camden, 

 New Jersey ; and, with his usual kindness, and zeal for Natural History, 

 communicated it to us for this work. 



This little Warbler diflfers so materially from its mate, as to require a 

 distinct figure and description, in order to be recognised ; yet we can- 

 not fail to perceive a kind of family resemblance between the sexes ; 

 and, by comparing the two descriptions and accompanying figures, our 

 readers will agree with us that they are but one and the same species, 

 in a diff'erent garniture of plumage. The distribution of markings is 



* See Wilson's American Ornithology, ii., p. 182, pi. 15, fig. 5, for the Male. 



