354 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



characteristic ; but have no claim to the title of song. It 

 kept constantly among the higher branches, and was very 

 active and restless. 



Length, five inches ; extent, seven inches and a half ; front, 

 ores, and behind the ear, black ; over the eye, a fine line of 

 white, and another small touch of the same immediately 

 under ; back, nearly all black ; shoulders, thinly streaked with 

 olive ; rump, yellow ; tail-coverts, jet black ; inner vanes of 

 the lateral tail-feathers, white, to within half an inch of the 

 tip, where they are black ; two middle ones, wholly black ; 

 whole lower parts, rich yellow, spotted from the throat down- 

 wards with black streaks ; vent, white ; tail, slightly forked ; 

 wings, black, crossed with two broad transverse bars of white; 

 crown, fine ash ; legs, brown ; bill, black. Markings of the 

 female not known. 



BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. {Sylvia hlackburniai.) 



PLATE XXIII— Fig. 3. 



Lath. ii. p. 461, No. 67. — Peale's Museum, No. 7060. 



S YL VI CO LA BLA GKB URNIA1. — Jaedine. 



Sylvia Blackburniae, Bonap. Synop. p. 80. 



This is another scarce species in Pennsylvania, making its 

 appearance here about the beginning of May ; and again in 

 September on its return, but is seldom seen here during the 

 middle of summer. It is an active, silent bird ; inhabits also 

 the state of New York, from whence it was first sent to 

 Europe. Mr Latham has numbered this as a variety of the 

 yellow-fronted warbler, a very different species. The specimen 

 sent to Europe, and first described by Pennant, appears also 

 to have been a female, as the breast is said to be yellow, 

 instead of the brilliant orange with which it is ornamented. 

 Of the nest and habits of this bird, I can give no account, as 



