TH.E CHESTNUT-SIDED WOOD-WARBLER. 
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emarginate. Male with the upper part of the head, the fore-neck, and the 
sides, chestnut-red ; forehead and cheeks, including a small space over the 
eye, deep black, behind which is a transverse patch of yellowish-white on 
the sides of the neck ; back bluish ash-grey, streaked with black ; tips of 
the secondary coverts and first row of small coverts white ; quills and tail- 
feathers brownish-black, edged with grey, the outer three of the latter with 
a white patch on the inner web, near the end ; middle of breast, abdomen, 
and lower tail-coverts white, tinged with reddish. Female similar to the 
male, but with the tints fainter, especially the chestnut of the head and 
throat, which are converted into light brownish-red. 
Male 5i, 11. 
From Texas northward. Rather common. Migratory. 
The Highland Cotton-plant. 
Gossipium herbacecm, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. ii. p. 462. — Monadelphia polyan- 
dria, Am??.— M alvaceae, Juss. 
This species, commonly known in America, is distinguished by its fivo- 
Iobed leaves and herbaceous stem. 
THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WOOD- WARBLER. 
Sylvicola icterocephala, Lath . 
PLATE LXXXI. — Wale and Female. 
In the beginning of May, 1808, I shot five of these birds, on a very cold 
morning, near Pottsgrove, in the State of Pennsylvania. There was a slight 
fall of snow at the time, although the peach and apple trees were already in 
full bloom. I have never met with a single individual of this species since. 
They all had their wings drooping, as if suffering severely from the sudden 
change of the weather, and had betaken themselves to the lower rails of a 
fence, where they were engaged in searching after insects, particularly 
spiders. I procured every one of those which I met with that morning, and 
which were five in number, two of them males, and the rest females. 
Where this species goes to breed I am unable to say, for to my inquiries 
on this subject I never received any answers which might have led me to the 
