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edges of the secondary coverts; quills and tail-feathers blackish-brown, edged 

 with dull greyish-white, the secondaries more broadly; tail-feathers edged 

 with yellow at the base, the outer three with a white patch on the inner web 

 near the end; lower parts yellow, streaked with black, abdomen and lower 

 tail-coverts white, the latter tinged with yellow. Female similar to the male, 

 with the tints duller, the dusky streaks on the upper parts very faint, the 

 rump greenish-yellow, the ear-coverts dull yellow, the white of the abdomen 

 more extended, and the black streaks on the breast less distinct. 



Male, 51, Sji 



New Jersey, and Blue Mountains of Vermont. Exceedingly rare. 



THE CCERULEAN WOOD-WARBLER. 



-^SVLVICOLA CCGRULEA, WUs. 



PLATE LXXXVL— Males. 



So scarce is this bird in the Middle Districts, that its discovery in the 

 State of Pennsylvania has been made a matter of much importance. Its 

 habits are consequently very little known, even at the present day, and it 

 would appear that only a few individuals have been seen by our American 

 ornithologists, one of which, a young female, has been figured by the Prince 

 of Musignano. 



It arrives in the lower parts of the State of Louisiana, in company with 

 many other species of Warblers, breeds there and sets out again about the 

 beginning of October. It is as lively as most species of its genus, possesses 

 the same manner of flight, moves sidewise up and down the branches and 

 twigs, frequently changing sides, and hangs to the extremities of bunches of 

 leaves or berries, on which it procures the insects and larvse of which its 

 food is principally composed. The liveliness of its notes renders it conspi- 

 cuous in those parts of the skirts of the forests which it frequents; and its 

 song, although neither loud nor of long continuance, is extremely sweet and 

 mellow. 



I have no precise recollection of the time when I first made a drawing of 

 this pretty little bird, but know this well, that a drawing which I had of it 

 was one of the unfortunate collection destroyed by the rats at Henderson. 



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