SYLVM STRIATA. 
BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 
[Plate LI V. — Fig. 4, Female.] 
This bird was shot in the same excursion with the Cape 
May Warbler [Sylvia maritima), and its history as far as it 
is known, will be detailed in the history of that species. See 
page 394. Of its nest and eggs I am ignorant. It doubtless breeds 
both here and in New Jersey, having myself found it in both 
places during the summer. From its habit of keeping on the 
highest branches of trees it probably builds in such situations, 
and its nest may long remain unknown to us. 
Pennant, who describes this species, says that it inhabits 
during summer Newfoundland and New York, and is called in 
the last Sailor. This name, for which however no reason is 
given, must be very local, as the bird itself is one of those silent, 
shy and solitary individuals that seek the deep retreats of the 
forest, and are known to few or none but the naturalist. 
Length of the female Black-cap five inches and a quarter, 
extent eight and a quarter; bill brownish black; crown yellow 
olive streaked with black; back the same, mixed with some pale 
slate; wings dusky brown, edged with olive; first and second 
wing coverts tipt with white; tertials edged with yellowish 
white; tail coverts pale gray; tail dusky, forked, the two exte- 
rior feathers marked on their inner vanes with a spot of white; 
round the eye is a whitish ring; cheeks and sides of the breast 
tinged with yellow, and slightly spotted with black; chin white, 
as are also the belly and vent; legs and feet dirty orange. 
The young bird of the first season, and the female, as is usu- 
ally the case, are very much alike in plumage. On their arrival 
