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BLUE WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Sialis.) 



Sy. supra ccerulea, suhtus iota rubra, ahdomine alho. 



Warbler above blue, beneath entirely red, with a white belly. 



Sylvia Sialis. Lath. Ind, Orn, 2. 522. 44. — VieiL Ois, de VAmer, 



Sept, 2.40. — Wils, Amer. Orn, 1. 56. 

 Motacilla Sialis. Lin. Syst. Nat, 1. 336. ^Q.—Gmel, Syst, Nat. 



1. 989. 



nubecula carolinensis. Briss, Orn. 3. 423. 



Rouge-gorge bleue de la Caroline. Buff. Hist, Nat, Ois, 5. 



0,12.— Buff, PI, Enl. 390./. 1. 2.—'Vieil. Ois. de I' Amer, 



Sept. 2. 40.pl, 101. 

 Blue Bird. Catesh, Carol. 1. pi, 4J. — Wils, Amer. Orn. 1. 56. 



HI./ 3. 



Blue Red-breast. Edwards. Birds, pi 24. 

 Blue-backed Red-breast. Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 398. 281. 

 Blue Warbler. Lath Gen, Syn, 4. 446. 40. 



This bird is nearly six inches in length : its 

 beak is blackish : the upper parts of its plumage 

 are of a fine blue : the throat, fore-part of the 

 neck, breast, and sides, rufous ; the breast some- 

 times tinged with blue : the belly and under tail- 

 coverts white : the female is less brilliant in co- 

 lour, and has the upper parts varied with brown, 

 and the edges of the secondaries white. 



This migrative bird makes its appearance in 

 Carolina and Virginia very early in the spring, in 

 flocks: it feeds on insects, to procure which it 

 frequents fields of maize and marshy places : it 

 often perches upon rails and posts, and jumps at 



