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FEMALE BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 

 SYLVIA STRIATA. 

 [Plate LIV.— Fig. 4.] 



Amer, Orn* voh IV, p. 40. 



THIS bird was shot in the same excursion with the preceding^ 

 and is introduced here for the purpose of preventing future collec- 

 tors, into whose hands specimens of it may chance to fall, from 

 considering it as another and a distinct species. Its history, as 

 far as was then known, has been detailed in a preceding part of 

 this work referred to above. Of its nest and eggs I am still igno- 

 rant. It doubtless breeds both here and in New Jersey, having 

 myself found it in both places during the summer. From its habit 

 of keeping on the highest branches of trees it probably builds in 

 such situations, and its nest may long remain unknown to us* 



Pennant, who describes this species, says that it inhabits du- 

 ring summer Newfoundland and New York, and is called in the 

 last Sailor. This name, for which however no reason is given, 

 must be very local, as the bird itself is one of those silent, shy and 

 solitary individuals that seek the deep retreats of the forest, and 

 are known to few or none but the naturalist. 



Length of the female Black-cap five inches and a quarter, ex- 

 tent eight and a quarter; bill brownish black; crown yellow olive 

 streaked with black; back the same, mixed with some pale slate; 

 wings dusky brown, edged with olive; first and second wing co- 

 verts tipt with white; tertials edged with yellowish white; tail 

 coverts pale grey; tail dusky, forked, the two exterior feathers 



marked on their inner vanes with a spot of white; round the eye 



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