BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER. 
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This species is four inches and a half long, and six 
and a half in extent ; front line over the eye, and whole 
lower parts, yellow, brightest over the eye, and dullest 
on the cheeks, belly, and vent, where it is tinged with 
olive ; upper parts, olive green ; wings and tail, dusky 
brown, the former very short ; legs and bill, flesh 
coloured ; crown, covered with a patch of deep black ; 
iris of the eye, hazel. 
The female is without the black crown, having that 
part of a dull yellow olive, and is frequently mistaken 
for a distinct species. 
116 . SYLVIA TIGItINA, LATHAM SYLVIA MONTANA, WILSON. 
BLUE MOUNTAIN WARBLER’, 
WILSON, PLATE XLIV. FIG. II. — MALE. 
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 culti- 
vated 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 yellow, streaked with black or 
dusky ; vent, plain pale yellow ; wings, black ; first and 
second row of coverts, broadly tipt with pale yellowish 
white ; tertials the same ; the rest of the quills edged 
with whitish ; tail, black, handsomely rounded, edged 
