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BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 
The female is about half an inch shorter, and an inch less 
in extent ; breast, cinereous brown ; upper part of the neck, 
inclining to ash ; the spot of changeable gold, green, and 
carmine, much less, and not so brilliant ; tail-coverts, brownish 
slate ; naked orbits, slate coloured ; in all other respects like 
the male in colour, but less vivid, and more tinged with 
brown ; the eye not so brilliant an orange. In both, the tail 
has only twelve feathers. 
BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER— SYLVIA MONTANA. 
Plate XLIV. Fig. 2. 
SYLVICOLA MONTANA. — Jardine.* 
Sylvia tigrina, Bonap. Synop. p. 82 . 
This new species 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 country; but seem only at home 
among the glooms and silence of those dreary solitudes. The 
present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of the 
Warblers, that approach the Flycatcher, 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 
* Bonaparte is inclined to think that this is the Sylvia tigrina of Latham. 
He acknowledges, however, not having seen the bird, and, as we have no 
means at present of deciding the question, have retained Wilson’s name. Both 
this and the following will range in Sylvicola Ed. 
