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FEMALE CAPE-MAY WARBLER. 
SYLVIA MARI TIMA. 
Plate III. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology , VI, p. 99, PI. 54, fig. 3, for the Male. 
My Collection. 
I was so fortunate as to obtain this undescribed little Warbler 
in a small wood near Bordentown, New-Jersey, on the fourteenth 
of May, at which season ornithologists would do well to be on the 
alert to detect the passenger Warblers, whose stay in this vicinity 
is frequently limited to a very few days. 
Judging by the analogical rules of our science, this bird is no 
other than the female of Wilson’s Cape-May Warbler. Its ap¬ 
pearance is so different from the male he described, that the specific 
identity is not recognised at first sight; but, by carefully comparing 
the two specimens, a correspondence in the least variable charac¬ 
ters may readily be perceived, especially in the remarkable slen¬ 
derness of the bill, which distinguishes 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 
