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U. S. P. R E. ESP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
DENDROICA CLE RULE A, Baird. 
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Blue Warbler. 
Sylvia cxrulea, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 141 ; pi. xvii, f 5. 
Sylvicola cimdea, " Swainson," Jard. ed. Wilson, 1832.— Rich. List, 1837.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 
308.— Aud. Synop. 1839, 56 — Ib. Birds Amer II, 1841, 45 ; pi. 86. 
Sylvia rara, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 119; pi. xxvii, f. 2, (young or female. )— Bonap. Obs. 1826, No. 158.— 
Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 258 ; pi. 49.— Nuttall, I, 1832, 255. 
Vermivora rara, Jardine, Ed. Wilson, 1832. 
Sylvia azurea, Stephens, in Shaw's Zool. Birds, X, n, 1817, 653.— Bon. Obs. 1826, 148.— Ib. Am. Orn. II, 1828; 
pi. xxvii, (female.)— Aud. Orn Biog. I, 1832, 255 ; pi. xlviii, xlix. — Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 407. 
Sylvia bifasciala, Say, Long's Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 170. 
Sp. Ch. — Male — Above bright blue, darkest on the crown, tinged with asli on the rump ; middle of back, scapulars, upper 
tail coverts, and sides of the crown streaked with black. Beneath white, a collar across the breast, and streaks on the sides 
dusky blue. Lores, and a line through and behind the eye, (where it is bordered above by whitish,) dusky blue ; paler on the 
cheeks. Two white bands on the wings. All the tail feathers except the innermost, with a white patch on the inner web near 
the end. Female greenish blue above, brightest on the crown ; beneath white, tinged with greenish yellow, and obsoletely 
streaked on the sides ; eyelids and a superciliary line greenish white. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.65 ; tail, 1.90. 
Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri river. 
This species is sufficiently dissimilar from any other not to require a more minute description 
than the above. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
645 
8 
May 9, 1842 
May 15, 1852 ... 
S. F. Baird 
7346 
& 
Q 
Rockport, Ohio 
J. P. Kirtland 
7345 
10163 
Q 
3 
South Illinois 
May 9 
10164 
6980 
do 
Q 
3 
St. Louis, Mo 
May 15, 1857 ... 
May 12, 1857 
96 
W. S. Wood 
6979 
do 
do 
52 
do 
DENDROICA STRIATA, Baird. 
Black Poll Warbler. 
Muscicapa striata, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 428.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 930. 
Motacilla striata, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 976. 
Sylvia striata, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 527.— Vieillot, Ois. Am Sept. II, 1807, 22 ; pi. kxv, Ixxvi.— Wilson, Am. 
Orn. IV, 1811, 40 ; pi. xxx, f 3: VI, 1812, 101 ; pi. liv.— Bon. Obs. Wils. 1826, No. 162.— Nuttall, 
Man. I, 1832, 383.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 201 ; pi. 133. 
Sylvicola striata, Swainson, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 218.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 308.— Aud. Birds 
Am. II, 1841, 28 ; pi. 78 — Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73. (Greenland.) 
Rhhnanphus striatiis, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 20.— Ib. Journ fur Orn. Ill, 1855, 475, (Cuba.) 
S P . Ch. — Male — Crown, nape, and upper half of the head black ; the lower half, including the ear coverts, white, the 
separating line passing through the middle of the eye. Rest of upper parts grayish ash, tinged with brown, and conspicuously 
streaked with black. Wing and tail feathers brown, edged externally (except the inner tail feathers) with dull olive green. 
Two conspicuous bars of white on the wing coverts, the tertials edged with the same. Under parts .white, with a narrow line 
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