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Male, 5, 7£. 



From Texas northward. Migratory. Abundant. 



The Canadian Columbine. 



AauiLEGiA canadensis, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 1247. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., vol. 



ii. p. 372. — POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Lillll. — RANUNCULACE.E, JllSS. 



This species, which has the flowers of a bright red mixed with yellow, and 

 is characterized by having the horns of the nectaries or petals straight, grows 

 in the crevices of rocks, and in dry places near rivulets. 



THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. 



•f Sylvicola maculosa, Lath. 

 PLATE XCVL— Male, Female, and Young. 



Few of our Warblers have a more varied plumage, or are more animated 

 in their motions, than this beautiful little bird. In Louisiana it is met with 

 now and then as early as the middle of March, but there its occurrence ap- 

 pears to be merely accidental, as is indeed the case in Kentucky, Ohio, or 

 any portion of the Middle States, through which a few are to be seen on 

 their passage to more northern regions. In autumn I have seen them in 

 great numbers near the Pocano Mountains, accompanied by their young, 

 proceeding southward, as I thought, along the direction of that range. While 

 in Maine, on my way to Labrador, in the month of May, I observed them 

 to be very abundant by the roads, in the fields, the low woods, and even the 

 orchards and gardens. In fact, so numerous were those interesting birds, 

 that you might have fancied that an army of them had assembled to take 

 possession of the country. Scarce a leaf was yet expanded, large icicles hung 

 along the rocky shores, and I could not but feel surprised at the hardihood 

 of the little adventurers. At night they roosted in numbers in the small 

 evergreen trees, and by day they were to be seen flitting about wherever the 

 sun shone. If the morning was cold, you might catch them with the hand, 

 and several specimens, procured in that manner by children, were brought to 



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