CERULEAN WARBLER. 
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sufficient to make them an object worth 
Vrcnfj we are likely to know as little of them 
Thi^*^*^ 3s at present. 
Wo 5 ^*® ®P«9ies is live inches lonn^, and seven and a half 
^he wholly of a tine light slate colour above ; 
l,j cheeks, front and u))per part of the breast, 
'‘^rketl ’• primaries 
white immediately below their 
I?'* ami’ f white ; 
Ktlc, yellow ; bill, black, and beset with 
% On base. The female is more of a dnsky 
"■Itite” I'l’east; and, in some specimens, nearly 
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doubt, pass this way on their return in 
Us ^ have myself shot several in that season ; 
*oe woods are then still thick n ith leaves, they 
’’lay .i®!' more difficult to be seen, and make a shorter 
they do in spring. 
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^yLriA CjERULEAf WII.SON. — S. AZUREA, STEPHEN. 
C.ERUI.EAN WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XVII. FIG. V. — MALE. 
iJtrnA '^®licate little species is novv, for the first time, 
f eiilg ,®®n to public notice. Except my friend, Mr 
^•tlinjj ,®ow of no other naturalist who seems to have 
^oovvn of its existence. At what time it 
‘Jisvef llio south, I cannot positively sayi, as I 
S'ld 11 1*^ spring, hut have several times 
’‘Hd niar , “''I"? summer. ()n the borders of streams 
nlietin, ®‘’’ tlw branches of the jioplar, it is 
f ® 1*® found. It has many of the habits of 
u * ’ lljuuglb lll'C llw yeUow-ijimp warbler, 
ftb ® ”>riiiation of its bill, we must arrang'e it 
".“•■I’lci's. It is one of our scarce birds in 
iWe “u*l Its nest has hitherto eluded my search. 
"irefQj. ®''®*' observed it after the 20tli of Aug-ust, and 
Tliijj ^.^'VPose it retires early to the south. 
wd is four inches and a half long, and seven 
