SPECIES 34. SYLVM MONmN^* 
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 honour- 
ed it. Several of these solitary Warblers remain yet to be glean- 
ed 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 opportunity. Some of these I 
believe rarely or never visit the lower cultivated 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 Fly- 
catcher, 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, streak- 
ed with black or dusky; vent plain pale yellow; wings black, 
first and second row of coverts broadly tipt with pale yellow- 
ish 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 
* Prince Musigniano in his Synopsis of the Birds of the United States, see 
Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. considers tliis as the Motacilla ligrina, Gmel. Syst. 
I, p. 985. If this be correct the following synonymes maybe quoted: — Sxjlvia 
tigrina. Lath. hid. Orn. ii, p. 537. — ViEitt. Ois. de I ’ Am, Sept.pl. 94. — Fice~ 
dula Canadensis fusca, Briss. hi, p. 515, 63, t. 27, f. 4. — Id. 8vo. r, p. 451. — 
Le Figuicr tachete de jaiine. Burr, v, p. 293. — Spoiled ijelloio Flycatcher, Arct. 
Zool. II, *A/b. 302. — Enw. pi. 257. — Lath. Syn. iv, p. 482, 106. 
