402 BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 
purplish flesh colored skin; head, upper part of the neck, and chin, a 
fine slate blue, lightest on the chin; throat, breast, and sides, as far 
as the thighs, a reddish ‘hazel; lower part of the neck, and sides of 
the same, resplendent changeable gold, green, and purplish crimson, 
the latter most predominant; the ground color, slate; the plumage of 
this part is of a peculiar structure, ragged at the ends; belly and 
vent, white; lower part of the breast, fading into a pale vinaceous 
red; thighs, the same; legs and feet, lake, seamed with white; back, 
rump, and tail-coverts, dark slate, spotted on the shoulders with a few 
scattered marks of black; the scapulars tinged with brown; greater 
coverts, light slate; primaries and secondaries, dull black, the former 
tipped and edged with brownish white ; tail, long, and greatly cunei- 
form, all the feathers tapering towards the point, the two middle ones. 
plain deep black, the other five, on each side, hoary white, lightest 
near the tips, deepening into bluish near the. bases, where each is 
crossed on the inner vane with a broad spot of black, and nearer the 
root with another of ferruginous ; primaries, edged with white; bas- 
tard wing, black. . 
The female is about half an inch shorter, and an inch less in ex- 
tent; breast, cinlereous brown; upper part of the neck, inclining to 
ash; the spot of changeable gold, green, and carmine, much less, and 
not so brilliant; tail-coverts, brownish slate; naked orbits, slate : col- 
ored; in all other respects like the male in color, but less vivid, and 
more tinged with brown; the eye not so brilliant an orange. In both, 
the tail has only twelve feathers. : 
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BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER.— SYLVIA MONTANA. — 
‘Fie. 183. 
SYLVICOLA MONTANA, —JarvineE.* 
Sylvia tigrina, Bonap. Synop. p. 82. 
Tis new species was first discovered near that celebrated ndge, 
or range of mountains, with whose name I have honored it. Several 
of these solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned up from the airy 
heights of our alpine scenery, as well as from the recesses of our 
swamps and morasses, whither it is my design to pursue them by ev- 
ery opportunity. Some of these, I believe, rarely or never visit the 
lower cultivated parts of the country; but seem only at home among 
the glooms and silence of those dreary solitudes. The present spe- 
cies seems of that family, or subdivision, of the Warblers, that ap- 
proach the Flycatcher, darting after flies wherever they see them, and 
also searching with preat activity among the leaves. Its song was a 
feeble screep, three or four times repeated. 
* Bonaparte is inclined to think that this is the Sylvia tigrina of Latham. He 
acknowledges, however, not having seen the bird, and, as we have no means at 
present of deciding the question, have retained Wilson’s name. Both this and the 
following will range in Sylvicola.— Ep. 
