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BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 

 SYLVIA MONTAjYA. 

 [Plate XLIV.-^Fig. 2.] 



THIS new species was first discovered near that celebrated 

 ridge, or range of mountains, with whose name I have honored it* 

 Several of these solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned up 

 from the airy heights of our alpine scenery, as well as from the re- 

 cesses of our swamps and morasses, whither it is my design to pur- 

 sue them by every opportunity. Some of these I believe rarely or 

 never visit the lower cultivated parts of the country ; but seem only 

 at home among the glooms and silence of those dreary solitudes. 

 The present species seems of that family, or subdivision of the 

 Warblers, that approach the Flycatcher, darting after flies wherever 

 they see them, and also searching with great activity among the 

 leaves. Its song was a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. 



This species is four inches and three quarters in length ; the 

 upper parts a rich yellow olive; front, cheeks and chin yellow, also 

 the sides of the neck; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with 

 black or dusky ; vent plain pale yellow ; wings black, first and se- 

 cond row of coverts broadly tipt with pale yellowish white ; tertials 

 the same; the rest of the quills edged with whitish ; tail black, 

 handsomely rounded, edged with pale olive; the two exterior fea- 

 thers, on each side, white on the inner vanes from the middle to 

 the tips, and edged on the outer side with white ; bill dark brown ; 

 legs and feet purple brown; soles yellow; eye dark hazel. 



This was a male. The female I have never seen. 

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