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SYLVIA MARITIMA. 
the Cape May from all other resembling species of 
North American warblers. 
Wilson has given no information relative to the history 
and habits of this species, having never procured more 
than a male specimen ; and we have equally to regret, 
that, having obtained but a single female, we are unable 
to supply the deficiency, even in regard to its song. 
The female Cape May warbler is four inches and 
three quarters long, and more than eight in extent. 
The bill is slender, delicate, and slightly curved, being 
black, as well as the feet. The irides are dark brown; 
the upper part of the head, olive cinereous, each feather 
having a small blackish spot on the middle. A yellow 
line extends from the bill over the eye, and is prolonged 
in an obsolete trace around the auditory region, thence 
returning to the corner of the mouth. A blackish line 
passes through the eye, which is circumscribed by a 
whitish circle ; the cheeks are dull cinereous, with very 
small pale spots ; the upper parts of the neck and of 
the body are olive cinereous, tinged with more cinereous 
on the neck, and with yellow olive on the rump. The 
chin is whitish ; the throat, breast, and flanks are 
whitish, slightly tinged with yellowish, each feather 
having a blackish spot on the middle ; the belly is 
immaculate ; the vent and inferior tail-coverts are 
shaded in the middle of each feather with dusky. The 
smaller wing-coverts are dull olive green, blackish in 
the centre ; the middling wing-coverts are black, 
margined exteriorly, and tipped with pure white; the 
greater wing-coverts are blackish, margined with olive 
white; the primaries are dusky, finely edged with 
bright olive green on the exterior web, obsolete on 
that of the first primary, which is of the same length 
as the fourth ; the second and third are longest, and 
but little longer than the fourth. The tail is slightly 
emarginated, the feathers being dusky, edged with 
bright olive green on the exterior side, and with white 
on the interior; the two or three exterior feathers on 
each side have a pure white spot on their inner webs 
near the tip. 
