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streaked with gray, dusky black, and dull yellow ; wings, 

 black; primaries edged with pale blue, the first and second 

 row of coverts, broadly tipt with pale yellow ; secondaries, 

 broadly edged with the same ; tail, black, handsomely forked, 

 exteriorly edged with ash ; the inner webs of the three 

 exterior feathers with each a spot of white ; from the 

 extremity of the black at the lower mandible, on each side, 

 a streak of deep reddish chestnut descends along the sides of 

 the neck, and under the wings, to the root of the tail ; the 

 rest of the lower parts are pure white ; legs and feet, ash ; 

 bill, black ; irides, hazel. The female has the hind head 

 much lighter, and the chestnut on the sides is considerably 

 narrower, and not of so deep a tint. 



Turton, and some other writers, have bestowed on this 

 little bird the singular epithet of " bloody-sided," for which I 

 was at a loss to know the reason, the colour of that part being 

 a plain chestnut ; till, on examining Mr Edward's coloured 

 figure of this bird in the public library of Philadelphia, I 

 found its side tinged with a brilliant blood colour. Hence, I 

 suppose, originated the name ! 



MOURNING WARBLER. {Sylvia Philadelphia.) 



PLATE XIV.— Fig. 6. 



TRICE AS ? PHILADELPHIA.— J ardine. 



Sylvia Philadelphia, Bonap. Synop. p. 85. 



I have now the honour of introducing to the notice of naturalists 

 and others a very modest and neat little species, which has 

 hitherto eluded their research. I must also add, with regret, 

 that it is the only one of its kind I have yet met with. The 

 bird from which the figure in the plate was taken was shot 

 in the early part of June, on the border of a marsh, within a 

 few miles of Philadelphia. It was flitting from one low bush 

 to another, very busy in search of insects ; and had a sprightly 



