THE BLACK-POLL WOOD-WARBLER. 
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high or low over the sea. Of these the greater number were, like the 
present species, Sylviae which are never found in Georgia or the two 
Carolinas. Their course was a direct one, and such as led me to believe that 
the little voyagers were bound for Cape Hattcras. The meeting with many 
of the species to which I allude, along the shores of Maryland, New Jersey, 
the eastern coast of Long Island, &c., and all along to the Bay of Fundy, 
has strengthened the idea ; but as I may not be correct, I leave the matter to 
the determination of more experienced observers. The subject appears to 
me to be one of the greatest importance, for the occurrence of plants in 
certain parts of a country and not in others may possibly be caused by the 
absence, during migration, of such birds as move by “short cuts” from one 
point of land to another. 
Black-poll Warbler, Sylvia striata. , Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iv. p. 40. 
Sylvia striata, Bonap. Syn., p. 81. 
Sylvicola striata, Black-poll Warbler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 
218. 
Black-poll Warbler, Sylvia striata , Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 383. 
Black-poll Warbler, Sylvia striata, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 201. 
First and second quills equal and longest, third a little shorter ; tail emar- 
ginate. Male with the upper parts bluish ash-grey, streaked with black ; the 
upper part of the head deep black ; the secondary coverts and first row of 
small coverts largely tipped with white ; quills and tail-feathers blackish- 
brown ; primaries narrowly edged with greenish-yellow, secondaries broadly 
with white ; three outer tail-feathers with a patch of white on the inner web 
at the end ; cheeks and lower parts white ; a band of black spots from the 
base of the lower mandible down the side of the neck and body. Female 
with the upper parts oil-green, streaked with black ; the rump and upper 
tail-coverts plain and edged with grey ; white wing-bands tinged withyellow ; 
cheeks yellowish-grey, mottled with dusky, lower parts dull white, tinged 
with yellow and reddish, the sides of the neck and body with fainter dark 
streaks. Young like the female. 
Male, 5i, 81. 
From Texas to Labrador, where it breeds. Columbia river. Common 
Migratory. 
The Black Gum Tree. 
Nyssa aquatica, Linn., Sp. PL, 1511. Mich., Arbr. Forest., vol. ii. p. 265, pi. 22. 
— N. bielora, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 1113. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. i. p 
IVY. — Polygamia moncecia, Linn. — Elteagki, Puss. 
