Species XXXIV. SYLVIA MONTANA* 
BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 
[Plate XLIV. Fig. 2, Male.] 
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 recesses of our swamps 
and morasses, whither it is my design to pursue them by every oppor- 
tunity. Some of these I believe rarely or never visit the lower culti- 
vated 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 second row of coverts 
broadly tipped 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 feathers, 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. 
* Prince Musignano in his Synopsis of the Birds of the United States, see Ann. 
Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., considers this as the Motacilla tigrina, Gmel. Si/st. i., p. 985. 
If this be correct the following synonymes may be quoted : — Sylvia tigrina, Lath. 
Ind. Orn. n., p. 537. — Vieill. Ois. de I' Am. Sept. pi. 94. — Ficedula Canadensis 
fusca, Briss. hi., p. 515, 63, t. 27, f. 4. — Id. 8vo. i., p. 451. — Le Figuier tachete de 
jaune, Buff, v., p. 293. — Spotted Telhw Flycatcher, Arct. Zool. n., No. 302. — Edw. 
pi. 257.— Lath. Syn. iv., p. 482, 106. 
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