THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. (37 



As I proceeded towards the Texas, in the beginning of April, I found it in 

 considerable numbers on its way toward the United States. The eggs 

 measure five-eighths and three-fourths in length, four-eighths and a half in 

 breadth; in some instances the ground-colour is slightly tinged with very 

 pale yellow. 



Black-and-Yellow Warbler, Sylvia magnolia, Wils. Araer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 63. 



Adult. 

 Sylvia maculosa, Bonap. Syn., p. 78. 



Black-and-Yellow Warbler, Sylvia maculosa, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 370. 

 Sylvicola maculosa, Yellow-rump Warbler, F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 213. 

 Black-and-Yellow Wareler, Sylvia maculosa, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 145, Adult; 



vol. i. p. 260, Young; vol. v. p. 458. 



Wings of moderate length, the outer four quills nearly equal, the second 

 and third longest and equal, the fourth longer than the first; tail almost even. 

 Upper part of head and hind neck ash-grey; eye-lids, and a band over the 

 eye, white; part of forehead, loral space, and a broad band down the side of 

 the neck, with the fore part of the back, and upper tail-coverts, deep black; 

 lower parts and rump bright yellow; the lower part of the throat, the breast 

 and sides, spotted with black; wings and tail-feathers brownish-black, edged 

 with grey; two white bands on the wing; all the tail-feathers, except the 

 middle two, with a large patch of white on the inner web, at about two-thirds 

 of their length. Young yellowish-grey above, with the head light grey, the 

 rump yellow; lower parts of a duller yellow, with only faint dusky streaks 

 on the sides. 



Male, 5, 1\. 



From Texas northward. Very abundant. Migratory. 



The Flowering Raspberry. 



Rubus odoratus, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 1085. Pursch, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol. i. p. 348. 

 — Icosandria polygynia, Linn. — Rosacea, Juss. 



This species of rasp has the stems hispid; the leaves three or five-lobed, 

 acute; the flowers in lateral and terminal corymbs, with divaricate stalks and 

 appendiculate calyces. It is abundant in the Middle and Eastern, but rare 

 in the Southern and Western Districts. It forms part of the rich under- 

 growth of our woods, and also grows in old fields with other species of the 

 genus. The flowers are rose-coloured and showy, but destitute of odour, and 

 the fruit is delicious and highly fragrant, from which circumstance the spe- 

 cies derives its name. 



