BLACK AND YELLOW WARELER. 231 
BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. —SYLVIA MAGNOLIA. — 
Fig. 106. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 7783. 
SYLVICOLA MACULOSA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia maculosa, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p.536.— Bonap. Synop. p. 78. — Yellow- 
Rump Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii..p. 400.— ‘The Black and Yellow Warbler, 
. (the young is figured onl aca pl.50; Orn. Biog. i. p. 260. —Sylvicola macu- 
losa, North..Zool. ii. p. a je ; 
Tus bird I'first met with on the banks of the Little Miami, near its 
junction with the Ohio. I afterwards found it among the magnolias, 
not far from Fort Adams, on the Mississippi. These two, both of 
which happened to be males, are all the individuals I have ever shot of 
this species ; from which I am justified in concluding it to be a very 
scarce bird in the United Stdes. Mr. Peale, however, has the merit 
of having been the first to discover this elegant species, which, he in- 
forms me, he found, several years ago, not many miles from Philadel- 
phia. No notice has ever been taken of this bird by any European 
naturalist whose works I have examined. Its notes, or rather chirp- 
ings, struck me as very peculiar and characteristic, but have no claim 
to the title of song. It kept constantly among the higher. branches, 
and was very active and restless. 
Length, five inches; extent, seven inches and a half; front, ores, 
and behind the ear, black; over the eye, a fine line of white, and an- 
other srnall touch of the same immediately under; back, nearly all 
black; shoulders, thinly streaked with olive; rump, yellow; tail- 
coverts, jet black; inner vanes of the lateral tail-feathers, white to 
within half an inch of the tip, where they are black ; two middle ones, 
wholly black; whole Iower parts, rich yellow, spotted from the throat 
downwards with black streaks; vent, white; tail, slightly forked; 
wings, black, crossed with two broad, transverse bars of white; crown, 
fine ash; legs, brown; bill, black. Markings of the female not 
known. 
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BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.—SYLVIA BLACKBURNIZ. — 
Fie. 107. 
Lath. ii. p. 461, No. 67. — Peale’s Museum, No. 7060. 
SYLVICOLA BLACKBURNIZE. —Jarvine.. 
Sylvia Blackburnize, Bonap. Synop. p. 80. 
' Tus is another scarce species in Pennsylvania, making its appear- 
ance here about the beginning of May, and again in September, on its 
return, but is seldom seen here during the middle of summer. It isan 
active, silent bird; inhabits also the state of New York, from whence 
it was first sent to Europe. Mr. Latham has numbered this as a vari- 
