70 BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 



it is only of late years that Macgillivray's Finch has appeared in numbers in 

 the neighbourhood of Charleston. Swainson's Warbler, at one time scarce 

 in South Carolina, where it was discovered by my good friend Dr. Bach- 

 man, has since been procured as far eastward as the vicinity of Boston by 

 Thomas M. Brewer, Junr., Esq. The Pipirie Flycatcher was not known 

 to exist eastward of the Floridas until after I had found it there, although 

 now it is not a scarce species, being found breeding in the very heart of the 

 city of Charleston. Traill's Flycatcher, which I first discovered on the 

 Arkansaw river, is now known to abound on the Columbia river. No other 

 person has observed the Rocky Mountain Wren in any part of the country 

 eastward of that great chain besides Dr. Bachman, who shot one within a 

 few miles of Charleston. I might mention several other species, which at 

 one time were extremely rare in the United States, but are now abundant in 

 many of our districts; but prefer returning to the Blue-Mountain Warbler, 

 which it has not been my good fortune to meet with, although it would be 

 in no degree surprising to find it a constant visiter to some portions of our 

 vast country yet untrodden by the ornithologist. My figure was taken from 

 a specimen lent to me by the Council of the Zoological Society of London, 

 and which had come from California. 



Alexander Wilson, to whom we are indebted for our knowledge of this 

 pretty bird, says that it "was first discovered near that celebrated ridge, or 

 range of mountains, with whose name I have honoured it. Several of these 

 solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned up from the airy heights of our 

 alpine scenery, as well as from the recesses of our swamps and morasses, 

 whither it is my design to pursue them by every opportunity. Some of 

 these, I believe, rarely or never visit the lower cultivated parts of the coun- 

 try, but seem only at home among the gloom and silence of those dreary 

 solitudes. The present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of the 

 Warblers, that approach the Flycatchers, darting after flies wherever they 

 sec them, and also searching with great activity among the leaves. Its song 

 was a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. 



"This species is four inches and three-quarters in length; the upper parts 

 a rich yellow-olive; front, cheeks, and chin yellow; also the sides of the 

 neck; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky; vent plain 

 pale yellow; wings black; first and second row of coverts broadly tipped 

 with pale yellowish-white, tertials the same; the rest of the quills edged witli 

 whitish; tail black, handsomely rounded, edged with pale olive; the two 

 exterior feathers on each side white on the inner vanes from the middle to 

 the tips, and edged on the outer side with white; bill dark brown, legs and 

 feet purple-brown; soles yellow; eye dark hazel. 



"This was a male. The female I have never seen." 



