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CAPE MAY WARBLER. 
The same swamp that furnished us with this elegant little 
stranger, and indeed several miles around it, were ransacked 
by us both for another specimen of the same ; but without 
success. Fortunately it proved to be a male, * and being in 
excellent plumage, enabled me to preserve a faithful portrait 
of the original. 
Whether this be a summer resident in the lower parts of 
New Jersey, or merely a transient passenger to a more northern 
climate, I cannot with certainty determine. The spring had 
been remarkably cold, with long and violent northeast storms, 
and many winter birds, as well as passengers from the south, 
still lingered in the woods as late as the 20th of May, gleaning, 
in small companies, among the opening buds and infant leaves, 
and skipping nimbly from twig to twig, which was the case 
with the bird now before us when it was first observed. Of 
its notes, or particular history, I am equally uninformed. 
The length of this species is five inches and a half, extent, 
eight and a half ; bill and legs, black ; whole upper part of 
the head, deep black ; line from the nostril over the eye, chin, 
and sides of the neck, rich yellow ; ear-feathers, orange, which 
also tints the back part of the yellow line over the eye ; at the 
anterior and posterior angle of the eye is a small touch of 
black; hind head and whole back, rump, and tail-coverts, 
yellow olive, thickly streaked with black ; the upper exterior 
edges of several of the greater wing-coverts are pure white, 
forming a broad bar on the wing, the next superior row being 
also broadly tipt with white ; rest of the wing, dusky, finely 
edged with dark olive yellow ; throat and whole breast, rich 
yellow, spreading also along the sides under the wings, hand- 
somely marked wfith spots of black running in chains ; belly 
and vent, yellowish white ; tail, forked, dusky black, edged 
with yellow olive, the three exterior feathers on each side 
marked on their inner vanes with a spot of white. The yellow 
on the throat and sides of the neck reaches nearly round it, 
and is very bright. 
Female, figured Voh III. 
