CONNECTICUT WOOD-WARBLER. 
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Blue-Mountain Warbler, Sylvia montana , Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. v. p. 113. 
Sylvia tigrina, Bonap. Syn., p. 83 ; but not of Gmelin or Latham, as the figure of 
Edwards, to which reference is made, has the tail not rounded, but emarginate. 
Blue-Mountain Warbler, Sylvicola montana , Nutt. Man., 2nd ed., p. 442. 
Blue-Mountain Warbler, Sylvia montana , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 294. 
No bristles at the base of the bill ; wings rather short, the third and fourth 
quills longest ; tail much rounded. Upper parts light greenish-olive ; a band 
across the forehead, one over the eye, the cheeks, throat, fore part and sides 
of neck bright yellow ; the rest of the lower parts yellowish-white ; the sides 
marked with narrow longitudinal dusky streaks ; wings dusky brown, all the 
feathers edged with yellowish-white, the secondary quills more broadly, the 
first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts tipped with white, 
forming two conspicuous bands ; tail brownish-black, the feathers edged with 
yellowish-green, the two outer on each side white in their terminal half. 
Male, 4 t V, wing, 2 T 6 2- 
Blue Mountains of Virginia, and west of the Rocky Mountains. 
CONNECTICUT WOOD-WARBLER 
Sylvicola agilis, Wils. 
PLATE XCIX. — Male and Female. 
I procured the pair represented in the plate, on a fine evening, nearly at 
sun-set, at the end of August, on the banks of the Delaware river, in New 
Jersey, a few miles below Camden. When I first observed them, they were 
hopping and skipping from one low bush to another, and among the tall 
reeds of the marsh, emitting an often-repeated tweet at every move. They 
were chasing a species of spider which runs nimbly over the water, aud 
which they caught by gliding over it, as a Swallow does when drinking. I 
followed them for about a hundred yards, when, watching a fair opportunity, 
I shot both at once. The weather was exceedingly sultry; and although I 
outlined both by candle-light that evening, and finished the drawing of them 
next morning by breakfast time, they had at that early hour become putrid, 
so that their skins could not be preserved. On opening then I counted 
upwards of fifty of the spiders mentioned above, but found no appearance of 
