BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 
13L 
b, 
jjl white ; tail coverts, slate ; the three exterior 
to marked on their inner vanes with white ; 
of the same on the ujjper and lower eyelid, 
becri!, female, at this season, nearly alike. They 
iciiiuiti, ciu ims aeiisuiJ, ciiiivt:;. 
change about the middle of February, and in 
five weeks are in their slate-coloured dress. 
STLriA MAGNOLIA, WILSON S. MACDLOSA, LATH. 
BLACK AND YELLOW WAltBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIII. PIG. II MALli. 
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.\lj bird I first met with on the banks of the Little 
junction with the Ohio. I afterwards 
05 ?, it among the magnolias, not far from fort Adams, 
Mississippi. These two, both of which happened 
Sh- ^ "ttales, are all the individuals I have ever .shot of this 
*%»***’ f*'om which I am justified in concluding it to 
scarce bird in the United States. Mr Peale, 
coy iius the merit of having been the first to dis- 
this elegant species, which, he informs me, he 
d^l Several years ago not many miles from Phila- 
a ** notice has ever been takeir of this bird 
aiuii^ European naturalist whose works I have ex- 
Es notes, or rather chirpings, struck me as 
th,. (.Peculiar and chamcteristic ; but have no claim to 
bran'!*® of song. It kept constantly among the higher 
j ^bcs, and was very active and restless. 
fro^*'‘Sth, fiye inches; extent, seven inches and a half; 
r *^*'®*) und behind the ear, black ; over the eye, a 
white, and another small touch of the same 
Ihjuj'^'bately under ; back, nearly all black ; shoulders, 
•ic't I? ^^’’Oi^ked with olive ; rump, yellow ; tail-coverts, 
''’hit ’ bnncr vanes of the lateral tail feathers, 
b|^(.|®> to within half .an inch of the tip, whore they are 
middle ones, wholly black ; whole lower 
H’itL’,®*cb yellow, spotted from the throat downwards 
'I'iu hick streaks ; vent, white ; tall, slightly torked ; 
®' > black, crossed with two broad transverse bars 
