Plate XLVIII. Males. Plate XLIX. Young Male.
Wings long, with the outer three quills nearly equal, the first and
second longest; tail slightly emarginate, upper parts of a fine light
blue, brighter on the head, the back marked with longitudinal streaks
of blackish; a narrow band of black from the forehead along the lore
to behind the eye; two conspicuous white bands on the wings, formed by
the tips of the secondary coverts and first row of small coverts;
quills black, margined with pale blue; tail-feathers black, edged with
blue, all with a white patch on the inner web near the end; lower
parts white, with a band of dark bluish-grey across the fore neck, and
oblong spots of the same along the sides. Female with the upper parts
light bluish-green, the lower and a streak over the eye very pale
yellow. Young of both sexes like the female.
_Male_, 4-1/2, 8.
From Texas to Nova Scotia. Columbia River. Rather common. Migratory.
Cœrulean Warbler, Sylvia cœrulea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. p. 141. Male.
Blue-green Warbler, Sylvia rara, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p.
119. Young.
Sylvia azurea, Bonap. Syn. p. 85.
Sylvia rara, Bonap. Syn. p. 82.
Cœrulean Warbler, Sylvia azurea, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. ii.
p. 27. Female.
Azure Warbler, Sylvia azurea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 255,
Male; v. v. p. 456.
Blue-green Warbler, Sylvia rara, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 258.
Young Male.
87. 12. Sylvicola Blackburniæ, Lath. Blackburnian
Wood-Warbler.--Blackburnian Warbler.
Plate CXXXV. Male. Plate CCCXCIX. Fig. 3. Female.
Outer three quills nearly equal, first generally longest; tail
slightly emarginate. Male black above, streaked with white; a small
patch on the top of the head, a band from the base of the upper
mandible over the eye, passing down the neck and curving forwards, and
a small band under the eye, orange-yellow; lore and a patch behind the
eye black; quills black, the outer margined with grey, the inner with
white, of which there is a large patch on the wing, including the
inner secondary coverts, and the tips of the outer, with those of the
first row of small coverts; three outer tail-feathers on each side
white, excepting an oblong portion toward the end, the next also
partially white; throat and fore part of breast rich reddish-orange;
breast dull yellow, the rest white; the sides of the neck and body
streaked with black. Female with the upper parts light olivaceous,
each feather dusky in the centre, the other parts as in the male, but
the tints much paler, the spot on the top of the head greenish-yellow,
the feathers tipped with dusky, the band over the eye pale yellow,
that on the lore and ear-coverts brown, the fore part of the neck
yellow, and the sides less strongly streaked than black.
_Male_, 4-3/4, 7-3/4. _Female_, 4-8/12, wing 2-((7-1/2)/12).
From Texas northward. Rather rare. Migratory.
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburniæ, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iii. p. 67.
Sylvia Blackburniæ, Bonap. Syn. p. 80.
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburniæ, Nutt. Man. v. i. p.
379.
Blackburnian Warbler, Sylvia Blackburniæ, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 208; v. v. p. 78.