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U. S. P. R R. EXP. AND SURVEYS-ZOOLOGY-GENERAL REPORT. 
DENDROICA CiERULEA, Baird. 
Blue Warbler. 
Sylvia ccerulea, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 141 ; pi. xvii, f. 5. 
Sylvicola ccerulea, “ Swainson,” Jard. ed. Wilson, 1832.— Rich. List, 1837.— Bonap. List, 1838.— 1b. Consp. 1850, 
308.— Aud. Synop. 1839, 56 —Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 45 ; pi. 86. 
Sylvia rara, Wilson, Am. Orn. ill, 1811, 119; pi. xxvii, f. 2, (young or female.)— Bonap. Obs. 1826, No. 158._ 
Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 258 ; pi. 49.— Nuttall, I, 1832, 255. 
Vermivora rara, Jardine, Ed. Wilson, 1832. 
Sylvia azurca, Stephens, in Shaw’s Zool. Birds, X, ii, 1817, 653.— Bon. Obs. 1826, 148 .—Ib. Am. Orn. II, 1828; 
pi. xxvii, (female.) — Aud. Orn Biog. I, 1832,255 ; pi. xlviii,xlix. —Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 407. 
Sylvia bifasciata, Say, Long’s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 170. 
Sp. Ch. —Male—Above bright blue, darkest on the crown, tinged with ash on the rump ; middle of back, scapulars, upper 
tail coverts, and sides of the crown streaked with black. Beneath white, a collar across the breast, and streaks on the sides 
dusky blue. Lores, and a line through and behind the eye, (where it is bordered above by whitish,) dusky blue ; paler on the 
cheeks. Two white bands on the wings. All the tail feathers except the innermost, with a white patch on the inner web near 
the end. Female greenish blue above, brightest on the crown ; beneath white, tinged with greenish yellow, and obsoletely 
streaked on the sides ; eyelids and a superciliary line greenish white. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.65 ; tail, 1.90. 
Hab. —Eastern United States to the Missouri river. 
This species is sufficiently dissimilar from any other not to require a more minute description 
than the above. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
645 
s 
Carlisle, Pa_,__ 
May 9, 1842 _ 
S. F. Baird_ 
7346 
$ 
Rockport, Ohio_ 
May 15, 1852 ... 
J. P. Kirtland__ 
7345 
Q 
Cleveland, Ohio_ 
10163 
O 
South Illinois_ 
May 9 
R. Kennicott-...___ - ----- 
101G4 
$ 
.do. 
May 9_ 
6980 
O 
St. Louis, Mo_ 
Limit. Brvan_ 96 
W. S. Wood. 
6979 
3 
_do...._ 
May 12, 1857 ... 
_do__ 52 
DENDROICA STRIATA, Baird. 
Black Poll Warbler. 
Muscicapa striata, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 383, 428.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 930. 
Motacilla striata, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 976. 
Sylvia striata, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 527.—Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 22 ; pi. lxxv, Ixxvi.— Wilson, Am. 
Orn. IV, 1811, 40 ; pi. xxx, f 3 : VI, 1812, 101 ; pi. liv-— Bon. Obs. Wils. 1826, No. 162.— Nuttall, 
Man. I, 1832, 383.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 201 ; pi. 133. 
Sylvicola striata, Swainson, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 218.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 308.— Aud. Birds 
Am. II, 1841, 28 ; pi. 78 — Reinhardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73. (Greenland.) 
Tthimanphus striatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 20.—In. Journ. fiir Orn. Ill, 1855, 475, (Cuba.) 
Sp. Ch.—M ale—Crown, nape, and upper half of the head black ; the lower half, including the ear coverts, white, the 
separating line passing through the middle of the eye. Rest of upper parts grayish ash, tinged with brown, and conspicuously 
streaked with black. Wing and tail feathers brown, edged externally (except the inner tail feathers) with dull olive green. 
Two conspicuous bars of white on the wing coverts, the tertials edged with the same. Under parts white, with a narrow line 
