BLACK AND YELLOW WARELER. 231 
BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER.—SYLVIA MAGNOLIA. — 
Fie. 106, 
Peale’s Museum, No. 7783. 
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SYLVICOLA MACPLOSA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia maculosa, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p.536.— Bonap. Synop. a ‘18. — Yellow- 
Romp Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 400.—'The Black and Yellow Warbler, 
(the young is figured only) Aud. pl. 50 3 Orn. Biog. i. p. 260. —Sylvicola macu- 
losa, North. Zool. ii. p. 212. 
Tats 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 States. 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 4s 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 small 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 lower. 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, 
ue ash ; legs, brown; bill, black. Markings of the female not 
own. 
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.—SYLVIA BLACKBURNIA. — 
Fie. 107. 
Lath. ii. p. 461, No. 67. — Peale’s Museum, No. 7060. 
SYLVICOLA BLACKBURNIZE. —Janviwe. ‘ 
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Sylvia Blackbumiz, Bonup. Synop. p. 80. 
Turs 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 is an 
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- 
