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edges of the secondary coverts ; quills and tail-feathers blackish-brown, edged 
with dull greyish-white, the secondaries more broadly ; tail-feathers edged 
with yellow at the base, the outer three with a white patch on the inner web 
near the end ; lower parts yellow, streaked with black, abdomen and lower 
tail-coverts white, the latter tinged with yellow. Female similar to the male, 
with the tints duller, the dusky streaks on the upper parts very faint, the 
rump greenish-yellow, the ear-coverts dull yellow, the white of the abdomen 
more extended, and the black streaks on the breast less distinct. 
Male, 54, 84. 
New Jersey, and Blue Mountains of Vermont. Exceedingly rare. 
THE C CERULEAN WOOD-WARBLER. 
Sylvicola ccerulea, Wils . 
PLATE LXXXVI.-Wai.es. 
So scarce is this bird in the Middle Districts, that its discovery in the 
State of Pennsylvania has been made a matter of much importance. Its 
habits are consequently very little known, even at the present day, and it 
would appear that only a few individuals have been seen by our American 
ornithologists, one of which, a young female, has been figured by the Prince 
of Musignano. 
It arrives in the lower parts of the State of Louisiana, in company with 
many other species of Warblers, breeds there and sets out again about the 
beginning of October. It is as lively as most species of its genus, possesses 
the same manner of flight, moves sidewise up and down the branches and 
twigs, frequently changing sides, and hangs to the extremities of bunches 
of leaves or berries, on which it procures the insects and larvae of which 
its food is principally composed. The liveliness of its notes renders it 
conspicuous in those parts of the skirts of the forests which it frequents ; 
and its song, although neither loud nor of long continuance, is extremely 
sweet and mellow. 
I have no precise recollection of the time when I first made a drawing 
of this pretty little bird, but know this well, that a drawing which I had 
of it was one of the unfortunate collection destroyed by the rats at 
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