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BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Blackburniae.) 



Sy. pileo atroy linea verticali et suhoculari loris pectoreqiic medio 

 Jlams, fascia alarum crisso rectricibusque extimis tribus albis, 



per oculos vitta nigra. 

 Warbler with a black crown, a vertical stripe, and another above 



the eye, the lores, and middle of the breast, yellow ; a fascia 



on the wings, vent, and three outer tail-feathers, white ; through 



the eyes a black stripe. 

 Sylvia Blackburniae. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 527^ 70.— Vieil, Ois, de 



PAmer, Sept. 2. 36. — Wils, Amer, Orn. 3. 64. 

 Motacilla Blackburniae. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 977. 

 La Fauvette Blackburniae. VieiL Ois, de I* Amer. Sept. 2. 36. 



pi. 96. 



Blackburnian Warbler. Lath. Gen, Syn. 4. 46l. 67.* — Pen. 

 Arct. Zool. 2, 412. 317. — Wils, Amer, Orn. 3. 64. pi. xxiil. 



A NATIVE of New York : it is thus described by 

 Dr. Latham : " Crown intensely black, divided 

 by a line of rich yellow : from the corner of the 

 upper mandible another of the same ; through the 

 eye a black one, reaching beyond it, bounded 

 beneath by a narrow yellow line : sides of the 

 neck, throat, and middle of the breast, yellow : 

 sides spotted with black : vent and thighs white : 

 lesser wing-coverts black ; the greater white ; 

 primaries dusky ; the middle tail-feathers dusky ; 

 the three outer ones on each side white.*' 



