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BLUE-MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 
it is only of late years that Macgillivray’s Finch has appeared in numbers in 
the neighbourhood of Charleston. Swainson’s Warbler, at one time scarce 
in South Carolina, where it was discovered by my good friend Dr. Bach- 
man, has since been procured as far eastward as the vicinity of Boston by 
Thomas M. Brewer, Junr., Esq. The Pipirie Flycatcher was not known 
to exist eastward of the Floridas until after I had found it there, although 
now it is not a scarce species, being found breeding in the very heart of the 
city of Charleston. Traill’s Flycatcher, which I first discovered on the 
Arkansaw river, is now known to abound on the Columbia river. No other 
person has observed the Rocky Mountain Wren in any part of the country 
eastward of that great chain besides Dr. Bachman, who shot one within a 
few miles of Charleston. I might mention several other species, which at 
one time were extremely rare in the United States, but are now abundant in 
many of our districts; but prefer returning to the Blue-Mountain Warbler, 
which it has not been my good fortune to meet with, although it would be 
in no degree surprising to find it a constant visiter to some portions of our 
vast country yet untrodden by the ornithologist. My figure was taken from 
a specimen lent to me by the Council of the Zoological Society of London, 
and which had come from California. 
Alexander Wilson, to whom we are indebted for our knowledge of this 
pretty bird, says that it “ was first discovered near that celebrated ridge, or 
range of mountains, with whose name I have honoured it. Several of these 
solitary Warblers remain yet to be gleaned up from the airy heights of our 
alpine scenery, as well as from the recesses of our swamps and morasses, 
whither it is my design to pursue them by every opportunity. Some of 
these, I believe, rarely or never visit the lower cultivated parts of the coun- 
try, but seem only at home among the gloom and silence of those dreary 
solitudes. The present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of the 
Warblers, that approach the Flycatchers, darting after flies wherever they 
see them, and also searching with great activity among the leaves. Its song 
was a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. 
“ This species is four inches and three-quarters in length ; the upper parts 
a rich yellow-olive ; front, cheeks, and chin yellow ; also the sides of the 
neck ; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky ; vent plain 
pale yellow ; wings black ; first and second row of coverts broadly tipped 
with pale yellowish-white, tertials the same ; the rest of the quills edged with 
whitish ; tail black, handsomely rounded, edged with pale olive ; the two 
exterior feathers on each side white on the inner vanes from the middle to 
the tips, and edged on the outer side with white ; bill dark brown, legs and 
feet purple-brown ; soles yellow ; eye dark hazel. 
“ This was a male. The female I have never seen.” 
