THE BLACKBURNIAN WOOD-WARBLER. 
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saw a pair of these birds engaged in constructing a nest near Lansingburgh, 
in the State of New York. He never saw the species in the maritime parts 
of South Carolina. 
The specimen from which I made the drawing copied in the plate before 
you, I procured near Reading in Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Schuyl- 
kill river, about thirty years ago. Some specimens shot in New Brunswick 
in September, were mottled somewhat in the manner of a two years old 
Tanager or Summer Redbird, being probably very young birds. 
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice, Wils. Amer. Ora., vol. iii. p. 67. 
Sylvia Blackburnice, Bonap. Syn., p. 80. 
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice , Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 379. 
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburnice , Aud. Orn. Biog\, vol. ii. p. 208 ; 
vol. v. p. 73. 
Outer three quills nearly equal, first generally longest; tail slightly emar- 
ginate. Male black above, streaked with white ; a small patch on the top of 
the. head, a band from the base of the upper mandible over the eye, passing 
down the neck and curving forwards, and a small band under the eye, orange- 
yellow ; lore and a patch behind the eye black; quills black, the outer mar- 
gined with grey, the inner with white, of which there is a large patch on the 
wing, including the inner secondary coverts, and the tips of the outer, with 
those of the first row of small coverts ; three outer tail-feathers on each side 
white, excepting an oblong portion towards the end, the next also partially 
white ; throat and fore part of breast rich reddish-orange ; breast dull yellow, 
the rest white; the sides of the neck and body streaked with black. Female 
with the upper parts light olivaceous, each feather dusky in the centre, the 
other parts as in the male, but the tints much paler, the spot on the top of 
the head greenish-yellow, the feathers tipped with dusky, the band over the 
eye pale yellow, that on the lore and ear-coverts brown, the fore part of the 
neck yellow, and the sides less strongly streaked with black. 
Male, 4f, 71. Female, 4 T 8 2, wing 
From Texas northward. Rather rare. Migratory. 
Phlox maculata, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 840. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., vol. i. 
p. 149. — Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. — Polemonia, Juss. 
Erect ; the stem rough, with purplish dots ; the leaves oblongo-lanceolate, 
smooth, with the margin rough; the flowers in an oblong crowded panicle, 
of a purplish-red tint, the segments of the corolla rounded ; the calycine teeth 
acute and recurved. It grows abundantly in wet meadows, from New Eng- 
land to Carolina. The flowers, although pleasing to the eye, have no scent. 
