. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. IK BLACK-TIIROATED BLUE WAllBLER. The Bluc-cycd Warbler is five inches long and seven broad; hind head and hack greenish yellow; crown, front and whole lower parts rich > golden yellow ; breast and sides streaked laterally with dark red ; winj^s and tail deep brown, except the edges of the former and the inner vanea of the latter, which are yellow; the tail is also slightly forked; legs a palo clay color; bill and eyelids light blue. The female is of a less brilliant yellow, and th
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. IK BLACK-TIIROATED BLUE WAllBLER. The Bluc-cycd Warbler is five inches long and seven broad; hind head and hack greenish yellow; crown, front and whole lower parts rich > golden yellow ; breast and sides streaked laterally with dark red ; winj^s and tail deep brown, except the edges of the former and the inner vanea of the latter, which are yellow; the tail is also slightly forked; legs a palo clay color; bill and eyelids light blue. The female is of a less brilliant yellow, and the streaks of red on the breast are fewer and nioro obscure. IJuft'on is mistaken in supposing No. 1, of PI. Enl. Plate Iviii., to be the female of this E '? '* ^ ' !h *: Si'KciKi! XIV. SYLVIA CAXADEXSIS. BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. [PlaU XV. Fig. 7.] MotaciUa Cmunhnsis, Linn. SijsI. i^^ft.—Le fujnierhleu, BuFf. v., ?,0\. PI. Enl. 085, fig. 2.—Latu. Si/n. II., p. 487, No. 113.~Edw. 2;i2.—Arct. .ifoo/. p. 399, No. 285. • I KNOW little of this bird. It is one of those transient visitors that in the month of April pa.«s through Pennsylvania on its way to the north to breed. It has much of the Flycatcher in its manners, though the form of its bill is decisively that of the Warbler. These birds are occa- sionally seen for about a week or ten days, viz., from the twenty-fifth of April to the end of the first week in May. I sought for them in the Southern States, in winter, but in vain. It is highly probable that they breed in Canada; but the summer residents among the fcatherc<l race, on that part of the continent, are little known, or attended to. The habits of the bear, the deer and beaver, are much more interesting to those j)eople, and for a good substantial reason too, because nioic lucra- tive ; and unless there shuuM arrive an order from Eiiglainl fur a cargo of skins of Warblers and Flycatchers, sutTicicnt to make them an object worth speculation, we
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