THE BLACKBURNIAN WOOD-WARBLER. 49 



saw a pair of these birds engaged in constructing a nest near Lansingburgh, 

 in the State of New York. He never saw the species in the maritime parts 

 of South Carolina. 



The specimen from which I made the drawing copied in the plate before 

 you, I procured near Reading in Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Schuyl- 

 kill River, about thirty years ago. Some specimens shot in New Bruns- 

 wick in September, were mottled somewhat in the manner of a two years 

 old Tanager or Summer Redbird, being probably very young birds. 



Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice, Wils. Araer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 67. 

 Sylvia BLACKEURNiiE, Bonap. Syn., p. 80. 



Blackbdrnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 379. 

 Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 208; vol. v. 

 p. 73. 



Outer three quills nearly equal, first generally longest; tail slightly emar- 

 ginate. Male black above, streaked with white; a small patch on the top of 

 the head, a band from the base of the upper mandible over the eye, passing 

 down the neck and curving forwards, and a small band under the eye, orange- 

 yellow; lore and a patch behind the eye black; quills black, the outer mar- 

 gined with grey, the inner with white, of which there is a large patch on the 

 wing, including the inner secondary coverts, and the tips of the outer, with 

 those of the first row of small coverts; three outer tail-feathers on each side 

 white, excepting an oblong portion toward the end, the next also partially 

 white; throat and fore part of breast rich reddish-orange; breast dull yellow, 

 the rest white; the sides of the neck and body streaked with black. Female 

 with the upper parts light olivaceous, each feather dusky in the centre, the 

 other parts as in the male, but the tints much paler, the spot on the top of 

 the head greenish-yellow, the feathers tipped with dusky, the band over the 

 eye pale yellow, that on the lore and ear-coverts brown, the fore part of the 

 neck yellow, and the sides less strongly streaked with black. 



Male, 4f , 7f . Female, 4 T \, wing 2-jJ. 



From Texas northward. Rather rare. Migratory. 



Phlox maculata, Willcl. Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 840. Putsch, Flor. Amer. Sept., vol. i. p. 

 149. — Pentandria monogynia, Linn. — Polemonia, Juss. 



Erect; the stem rough, with purplish dots; the leaves oblongo-lanceolate, 

 smooth, with the margin rough; the flowers in an oblong crowded panicle, 

 of a purplish-red tint, the segments of the corolla rounded; the calycine teeth 

 acute and recurved. It grows abundantly in wet meadows, from New Eng- 

 land to Carolina. The flowers, although pleasing to the eye, have no scent. 



