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U. S. P. K. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Sex ant 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
3 
9 
9 
<?? 
3 
9 
3 
9 
9 
May 5, 1843 
5.25 
4.91 
4.58 
5.08 
8.16 
7.50 
7.50 
8.00 
2.66 
2.33 
2.66 
Sept. 20, 1849 
July 30, 1844 
Washington, D. C 
Calcasieu Pass, La 
WestNorthfield, III.... 
Ft. Lookout, Neb 
May 26, 1857 
June 1,1856 
Wm. M. Magraw. . . 
14 
Dr. Cooper .... 
Dr. Hay den.... 
4.50 
4.25 
4.50 
4.87 
7.37 
6.75 
7.00 
7.37 
2.00 
2.00 
2.25 
2.25 
Iris brown, bill black, 
feet yellow. 
Little Sheyenne river 
June 25, 1856 
July 1855 
3 
""3" 
3 
3 
3 
3 
5.50 
2.75 
July 12, 1855 
4.50 
4.87 
4.75 
4.37 
4.75 
5.12 
4.00 
4.25 
4.50 
4.75 
7.50 
8.25 
7.75 
7.50 
7.87 
7.75 
2.50 
2.62 
2.50 
2.50 
3.50 
..... 5 
do 
do 
Mouth of White river... 
Mouth of Platte river... 
April 27, 1856 
r 
3 
9 
3 
3 
East of Ft. Riley, K. T. 
June 17 t SWfi ' Lieut F T. Rrvan 
21 
W. S. Wood... 
Dr. Hayden.... 
do 
June 4, 1856 
Aug. 1, 1856 
7.25 
7.62 
8.00 
2.25 
2.50 
1.50 
Near mouth of Powder 
do 
Ft. Steilacoom, W. T.. 
Gov. Stevens 
512 
3 
3 
3 
9 
May 3 
Dr. Suckley 
5.25 
7.75 
May 7, 1856 
do 
Shoalwater bay,W. T.. 
May — , 1851 
May — , 1852 
5.00 
7.25 
Feet pale lemon .... 
0 
J. Xantus de Vesey. 
DENDROICA MACULOSA, Baird. 
Black and Yellow Warbler. 
Molacilla maculosa , Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 984. 
Sylvia maculosa, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 536.— Vieillot , Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807; pi. xciii.— Bonap. Obs. 
Wils. 182G, No. 150.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 370.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 260.— II, 
1834, 145: V, 1839, 458; pi. 1, cx.xiii. 
Sylvicola maculosa, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 307.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 
61.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 65; pi. xcvi. 
Rhmiunphus maculosus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 20.— Ib. Journ. Orn. Ill, 1855, 474, (Cuba). 
Sylvia magnolia, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 63 ; pi. xxiii, f. 3. 
Sp. Ch. — Male, in spring. — Bill dark bluish black, rather lighter beneath. Tail dusky. Top of head light grayish blue. 
Front, lore, cheek, and a stripe under the eye, black, running into a large triangular patch on the back between the wings, 
which is also black. Eyelids and a stripe from the eye along the head white. Upper tail coverts black, some of the feathers 
tipped with grayish. Abdomen and lower tail coverls white . Rump and under parts, except as described, yellow. Lower 
throat, breast, and sides streaked with black ; the streaks closer on the lower throat and fore breast. Lesser wing coverts, and 
edges of the wing and tail bluish gray, the former spotted with black. Quills and tail almost black ; the latter with a square 
patch of white on the inner webs of all the tail feathers (but the two inner) beyond the middle of the tail. Two white bands 
