THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. ' 67 
As I proceeded towards the Texas, in the beginning of April, I found it in 
considerable numbers on its way towards the United States* The eggs 
measure five-eighths and three-fourths in length, four-eighths and a half in 
breadth ; in some instances the ground-colour is slightly tinged: with very 
pale yellow. 
Black-and-Y ellow Warbler, Sylvia magnolia t Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 63. 
Adult. 
Sylvia maculosa, Bonap. Syn., p. 78. 
Black-and-Yellow Warbler, Sylvia maculosa :, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 370. 
Sylvicola maculosa, Yellow-rump Warbler , F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 213. 
Black-and-Yellow Warbler, Sylvia maculosa , And. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 145,. 
Adult ; vol. i. p. 260, Young; vol. v. p. 458. 
Wings of moderate length, the outer four quills nearly equal, the second 
and third longest and equal, the fourth longer than the first ; tail almost even. 
Upper part of head and hind neck ash-grey ; eye-lids, and a band over the 
eye, white ; part of forehead, loral space, and abroad band down the side of 
the neck, with the fore part of the back, and upper tail-coverts, deep black ; 
lower parts and rump bright yellow ; the lower part of the throat, the breast 
and sides, spotted with black ; wings and tail-feathers brownish-black, edged 
with grey ; two white bands on the wing ; all the tail-feathers, except the 
middle two, with a large patch of white on the inner web. at about two-thirds 
of their length. Young yellowish-grey above, with the head light grey, the 
rump yellow ; lower parts of a duller yellow, with only faint dusky streaks 
on the sides. 
Male, 5. 7£. 
From Texas northward. Very abundant. Migratory. 
The Flowering Raspberry. 
Rubus odoratus, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. ii. p. 1085. Pursch, FI. Amer. Sept., vol. i. 
p. 348. — Icosandria polygynia, Linn. — Rosaceae, Juss. 
This species of rasp has the stems hispid ; the leaves three or five-lobed, 
acute; the flowers in lateral and terminal corymbs, with divaricate stalks and 
appendiculate calyces. It is abundant in the Middle and Eastern, but rare 
in the Southern and "Western Districts. It forms part of the rich under- 
growth of our woods, and also grows in old fields with other species of the 
genus. The flowers are rose-coloured and showy, but destitute of odour, and 
the fruit is delicious and highly fragrant, from which circumstance the 
species derives its name. 
