SYLVIA PHILADELPHIA. 
sides is considerably narrower, and not of so deep ^ 
tint. 
Tiirton, and some other writers, have bestowed 
this little bird the singular epithet of “ bloody-sided- 
for which I was at a loss to know the reason, the colp** 
of that part being a plain chestnut ; till, on exaniiui'lj 
Mr Edn-ards’s coloured figure of this bird in the p'd’^‘ 
dd^eaey of Ehiladelphia, I found its side tinged wit^j 
brilliant blood colour. Hence, I sunnose '^ori- iui*''^ 
the name 1 n » o 
109 . SYLVIA naLABELrillA, WILSON. MOOBNIXG WABBt*’’ 
WILSON, PLATE XIV. FIG. VI. ^ 
I HAVE now the honour of introducing’ to the nod?* 
of naturalists and others, a very modest and neat i 
species, which has hitherto eluded their research. . . 
must also add, with regret, that it is the only one off 
ki/id I have yet met with. It was shot in the 
part of June, on tlie border of a niai’sh, within a f**, 
miles of Philadelphia. It was llittino- from one 
bush to another, very busy in search'’of insects ; 
had a vspfi^rhtly and pleasant warbliii^ son**-, the 
of which hrst attracted iny attention. I have travel'^ , 
the same and many such places, every springs ^, 1 , 
summer since, in expectation of aj^ain meeting" 
'“dividual ot tlie species, but without success. . v 
Ibere are two sjiecies mentioned by Tiirton, to " h'f 
the present has some resemblance, viz. 
or mitred warbler, and m. cuadlata, or hooded warbkf 
both birds of the United States, or, more properl)'’ 
single bird; for they are the same species twice “ 
scribed, namely, the hooded warbler. The dilfereri ’ 
however, between that and the present is so strikiff | 
^ to determine this at once to be a very distinct ' 
The singular appearance of the head, neck, and brca'**’ 
suggested the name. 
The mourning warbler is five inches long, and 
m extent; the whole hack, wings, and tail, arc oi 
