CONNECTICUT WOOD-WARBLER. 71 



Blue-Mountain Wareler, Sylvia montana, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. v. p. 113. 



Sylvia tigrina, Bonap. Syn., p. 83; but not of Gmelin or Latham, as the figure of 



Edwards, to which reference is made, has the tail not rounded, but emarginate. 

 Blue-Mountain Warbler, Sylvicola montana, Nutt. Man. 2nd Ed., p. 442. 

 Blue-Mountain Warbler, Sylvia montana, Aud. Orn. Biog\, vol. v. p. 294. 



No bristles at the base of the bill; wings rather short, the third and fourth 

 quills longest; tail much rounded. Upper parts light greenish-olive; a band 

 across the forehead, one over the eye, the cheeks, throat, fore part and sides 

 of neck bright yellow; the rest of the lower parts yellowish-white; the sides 

 marked with narrow longitudinal dusky streaks; wings dusky brown, all the 

 feathers edged with yellowish-white, the secondary quills more broadly, the 

 first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts tipped with white, form- 

 ing two conspicuous bands; tail brownish-black, the feathers edged with yel- 

 lowish-green, the two outer on each side white in their terminal half. 



Male, 4 T V, wing 2 T 6 5 . 



Blue Mountains of Virginia, and west of the Rocky Mountains. 



CONNECTICUT WOOD-WARBLER. 



Sylvicola agilis, Wils. 



PLATE XCIX Male and Female. 



I procured the pair represented in the plate, on a fine evening, nearly at 

 sun-set, at the end of August, on the banks of the Delaware river, in New 

 Jersey, a few miles below Camden. When I first observed them, they were 

 hopping and skipping from one low bush to another, and among the tall 

 reeds of the marsh, emitting an often-repeated tweet at every move. They 

 were chasing a species of spider which runs nimbly over the water, and 

 which they caught by gliding over it, as a Swallow does when drinking. I 

 followed them for about a hundred yards, when, watching a fair opportunity, 

 I shot both at once. The weather was exceedingly sultry; and although I 

 outlined both by candle-light that evening, and finished the drawing of them 

 next morning by breakfast time, they had at that early hour become putrid, 

 so that their skins could not be preserved. On opening them I counted up- 

 wards of fifty of the spiders mentioned above, but found no appearance of 



