THE BLACK-AND- YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. 
05 
Male, 5, 7J. 
From Texas northward. Migratory. Abundant. 
The Canadian Columbine. 
Aquilegia canadensis, Willd ., Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 1247. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., 
vol. ii. p. 372. — Polyandria pentagynia, Linn. — Rancnculace^:, Juss. 
This species, which has the flowers of a bright red mixed with yellow, and 
is characterized by having the horns of the nectaries or petals straight, 
grows in the crevices of rocks, and in dry places near rivulets. 
THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOODAVARBLER. 
Sylvicola maculosa, Lath . 
PLATE XCYI. — Male, Female, and Young. 
Few of our Warblers have a more varied plumage, or are more animated 
in their motions, than this beautiful little bird. In Louisiana it is met with 
now and then as early as the middle of March, but there its occurrence 
appears to be merely accidental, as is indeed the case in Kentucky, Ohio, or 
any portion of the Middle States, through which a few are to be seen on 
their passage to more northern regions. In autumn I have seen them in 
great numbers near the Pocano Mountains, accompanied by their young, 
proceeding southward, as I thought, along the direction of that range. While 
in Maine, on my way to Labrador, in the month of May, I observed them 
to be very abundant by the roads, in the fields, the low woods, and even the 
orchards and gardens. In fact, so numerous were those interesting birds, 
that you might have fancied that an army of them had assembled to take 
possession of the country. Scarce a leaf was yet expanded, large icicles hung 
along the rocky shores, and I could not but feel surprised at the hardihood 
of the little adventurers. At night they roosted in numbers in the small 
evergreen trees, and by day they were to be seen flitting about wherever the 
sun shone. If the morning was cold, you might catch them with the hand, 
and several specimens, procured in that manner by children, were brought tc 
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