THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WOOD-WARBLER. 35 



emarginate. Male with the upper part of the head, the fore neck, and the 

 sides, chestnut-red; forehead and cheeks, including a small space over the 

 eye, deep black, behind which is a transverse patch of yellowish-white on the 

 sides of the neck; back bluish ash-grey, streaked with black; tips of the se- 

 condary coverts and first row of small coverts white; quills and tail-feathers 

 brownish-black edged with grey, the outer three of the latter with a white 

 patch on the inner web near the end; middle of breast, abdomen, and lower 

 tail-coverts white, tinged with reddish. Female similar to the male, but with 

 the tints fainter, especially the chestnut of the head and throat, which are 

 converted into light brownish-red. 



Male, 54, 11. 



From Texas northward. Rather common. Migratory.' 



The Highland Cotton-plant. 



Gossipium herbaceum, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. ii. p. 462. — Monadelphia polyandria, Linn. 

 — Malvace^;, Juss. 



This species, commonly known in America, is distinguished by its five- 

 lobed leaves and herbaceous stem. 



THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WOOD- WARBLER. 



"tSylvicola icterocephala, Lath. 

 PLATE LXXXL— Male and Female. 



In the beginning of May 1S08, I shot five of these birds, on a very cold 

 morning, near Pottsgrove, in the State of Pennsylvania. There was a slight 

 fall of snow at the time, although the peach and apple trees were already in 

 full bloom. I have never met with a single individual of this species since. 

 They all had their wings drooping, as if suffering severely from the sudden 

 change of the weather, and had betaken themselves to the lower rails of a 

 fence, where they were engaged in searching after insects, particularly spi- 

 ders. I procured every one of those which I met with that morning, and 

 which were five in number, two of them males, and the rest females. 



Where this species goes to breed I am unable to say, for to my inquiries 

 on this subject I never received any answers which might have led me to the 



