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BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 
Length, five inches ; extent, seven inches and a half ; front, 
ores, and behind the ear, black ; over the eye, a fine line of 
white, and another small touch of the same immediately under ; 
back, nearly all black ; shoulders, thinly streaked with olive ; 
rump, yellow ; tail-coverts, jet black ; inner vanes of the 
lateral tail-feathers, white, to within half an inch of the tip, 
where they are black ; two middle ones, wholly black ; whole 
lower parts, rich yellow, spotted from the throat downwards 
with black streaks ; vent, white ; tail, slightly forked ; wings, 
black, crossed with two broad transverse bars of white ; crown, 
fine ash ; legs, brown ; bill, black. Markings of the female not 
known. 
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER — SYLVIA BLACKBURNIAN. 
Plate XXIII. Fig. 3. 
Lath. ii. p. 461, No. 67. — Peale's Museum , No. 7060. 
SYLVICOLA BLACKBURmJE.— Jardine. 
Sylvia Blackburnia?, JBonap. Synop. p. 80. 
This is another scarce species in Pennsylvania, making its 
appearance here about the beginning of May ; and again in 
September on its return, but is seldom seen here during the 
middle of summer. It is an active, silent bird ; inhabits also 
the state of New York, from whence it was first sent to 
Europe. Mr Latham has numbered this as a variety of the 
Yellow-fronted Warbler, a very different species. The specimen 
sent to Europe, and first described by Pennant, appears also 
to have been a female, as the breast is said to be yellow, 
instead of the brilliant orange with which it is ornamented. 
Of the nest and habits of this bird, I can give no account, as 
there is not more than one or two of these birds to be found 
here in a season, even with the most diligent search. 
The Blackburnian Warbler is four inches and a half long, 
and seven in extent ; crown, black, divided by a line of orange ; 
the black again bounded on the outside by a stripe of rich 
