466 FEMALE BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 
each side marked on their inner vanes witn a spot of white. The yel- 
low on the throat and sides of the neck reaches nearly rourd it, and 
is very bright. 
FEMALE BLACK-POLL WARBLER.— SYLVIA STRIATA. — 
Fie. 216. 
Amer. Orn. vol. iv. p. 40. 
SYLVICOLA ST'RIATA, — Swainson. 
Tus bird was shot in the same excursion with the preceding, and 
is introduced here for the purpose of preventing future collectors, into 
whose hands specimens of it may chance to fall, from considering ft 
as another and a distinct species. Its history, as far as was then 
known, has been detailed in a preceding part of this work. Of its 
nest and eggs J am still ignorant. It doubtless breeds both here and 
in New Jersey, having myself found it in both places during the surn- 
mer. From its habit of keeping on the highest branches of trees, it 
probably builds in such situations, and its nest may long remain 
unknown to us. 
Pennant, who describes this species, gays that it inhabits, during 
summer, Newfoundland and New York, and is called in the last 
Sailor. This name, for which, however, no reason is given, must 
be very local, as the bird itself is one of those silent, shy, and solitary 
individuals, that seek the deep retreats of the forest, and are known t. 
few or none but the naturalist. 
Length of the female Black-Cap, five inches and a quarter, extent, 
eight and a quarter ; bill, brownish black ; crown, yellow olive, streaked 
with black ; back, the same, mixed with some pale slate ; wings, dusk 
brown, edged with olive; first and second wing-coverts, tipped with 
white; tertials, edged with yellowish white; tail-coverts, pale gray ; 
tail, dusky, forked, the two exterior feathers marked on their inner 
vanes with a spot of white ; round the eye is a whitish ring; cheeks 
and sides of the breast, tinged with yellow, and slightly spotted with 
black ; chin, white, as are also the belly and vent; legs and feet, dirty 
orange. 
The young bird of the first season, and the female, as is usually the 
case, are very much alike in plumage. On their arrival early in April, 
the black feathers on the crown are frequentl:* seen coming out, inter- 
mixed with the former ash-colored ones. 
nee species has all the agility and many of the habits of the Fly- 
catcher. 
[Parts VII. and VIII. of Wilson’s work, commencing with the next 
description, (Ring-tailed Kagle,) seem to have been finished more hur- 
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