The birds of America - from drawings made in the United States and their territories (1840) (14563411599)

Identifier: birdsofamericafr02audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



Text Appearing Before Image:
anadensis, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 398. Male.Black-throated Blue Warbler, Sylvia canadensis, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 309. Male.Pine-swamp Warbler, Sylvia pusilla, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. v. p. 100. Young.Sylvia sphagnosa, Bonap. Syn., p. 85. Young. Pine-swamp Warbler, Sylvia sjjliagnosa, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 406. Young.Pine-swamp Warbler, Sylvia sphagnosa, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 279. Female and Young. Vol. v. p. 453. Wings rather long, with the third quill longest, the second almost equal,the fourth longer than the first; tail even. Male dull light blue above, whitebeneath; frontal band, cheeks, throat, and sides, black; a white patch on thewing formed by the bases of the primaries; outer three tail-feathers with apatch of white on the inner web near the end, all the rest with a touch ofthe same. Female greenish-olive above, light dull yellow below, with a lessextended white patch on the wing, the white on the tail unconspicuous.Youna; similar to the female. IsT? 20 PI. 96.
Text Appearing After Image:
/ • THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. 65 Male, 5, 7£. From Texas northward. Migratory. Abundant. The Canadian Columbine. AauiLEGiA canadensis, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 1247. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 372.—POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Lillll.—RANUNCULACE.E, JllSS. This species, which has the flowers of a bright red mixed with yellow, andis characterized by having the horns of the nectaries or petals straight, growsin the crevices of rocks, and in dry places near rivulets. THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WOOD-WARBLER. •f Sylvicola maculosa, Lath.PLATE XCVL—Male, Female, and Young. Few of our Warblers have a more varied plumage, or are more animatedin their motions, than this beautiful little bird. In Louisiana it is met withnow and then as early as the middle of March, but there its occurrence ap-pears to be merely accidental, as is indeed the case in Kentucky, Ohio, orany portion of the Middle States, through which a few are to be seen ontheir passage to more northern regions