BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 
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brownish white ; tail coverts, slate; the three exterior 
tail feathers, marked on their inner vanes with white ; 
a touch of the same on the upper and lower eyelid. 
Male and female, at this season, nearly alike. They 
begin to change about the middle of February, and in 
four or five weeks are in their slate-coloured dress. 
101 . SYLVIA MAGNOLIA , WILSON. S. MACULOSA , LATH. 
BLACK AND YELLOW WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIII. FIG. II. — MALE. 
This bird I first met with on the banks of the Little 
Miami, near its junction with the Ohio. I afterwards 
found it among the magnolias, not far from fort Adams, 
on the Mississippi. These two, both of which happened 
to be males, are all the individuals I have ever shot of this 
species ; from which I am justified in concluding it to 
be a very scarce bird in the United States. Mr Feale, 
however, has the merit of having been the first to dis- 
cover this elegant species, which, he informs me, he 
found several years ago not many miles from Phila- 
delphia. No notice has ever been taken of this bird 
by any European naturalist whose works I have ex- 
amined. Its notes, or rather chirpings, struck me as 
very peculiar and characteristic ; but have no claim to 
the title of song. It kept constantly among the higher 
branches, and was very active and restless. 
Length, five inches ; extent, seven inches and a half; 
front, lores, 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 
