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thereby thick and callous ; claws, stout and black ; whole leg, 

 of a dirty yellowish colour ; above the knee, bare of feathers 

 for half an inch ; the two exterior toes united together for 

 nearly their whole length. 



The female is sprinkled all over with specks of white ; the 

 band of blue around the upper part of the breast is nearly 

 half reddish brown ; and a little below this passes a band of 

 bright reddish bay, spreading on each side under the wings. 

 The blue and rufous feathers on the breast are strong, like 

 scales. The head is also of a much darker blue than the 

 back, and the white feathers on the chin and throat of an 

 exquisite fine glossy texture, like the most beautiful satin. 



BLACK AND YELLOW WAEBLEK. {Sylvia 



magnolia?) 



PLATE XXIII.— Fig. 2. 



Peale's Museum, No. 7783. 

 SYLVICOLA MACULOSA— Swainson. 



Sylvia maculosa, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 536. — Bonap. Synop. p. 78. — Yellow- 

 rump Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 400. — The Black and Yellow Warbler 

 (the young is figured only), Aud. pi. 50; Orn. Biog. i. p. 260. — Sylvicola 

 maculosa, North. Zool. ii. p. 212. 



This bird I first met with on the banks of the Little Miami, 

 near its junction with the Ohio. I afterwards found it among 

 the magnolias, not far from Fort Adams, on the Mississippi. 

 These two, both of which happened to be males, are all the 

 individuals I have ever shot of this species ; from which I am 

 justified in concluding it to be a very scarce bird in the 

 United States. Mr Peale, however, has the merit of having 

 been the first to discover this elegant species, which, he 

 informs me, he found several years ago not many miles from 

 Philadelphia. No notice has ever been taken of this bird by 

 any European naturalist whose works I have examined. Its 

 notes, or rather chirpings, struck me as very peculiar and 

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