364 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



expected, from the continual brushing of their feathers among the 

 junipers and myrtles, in quest of the berries on which they feed. 



YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 



(Sylvia petechia, Lath. Wilson, iv. p. 19. pi. 28. fig. 4. S. palmartim, 

 BoNAP. (not of Latham j, Am. Orn. 2. pi. 10. fig. 2. [adult male], 

 Philad. Museum, No. 7124.) 



Sp. Charact. — Yellow-olive, streaked with dusky; beneath and 

 line over the eye yellow ; crown and spots of the breast bright 

 bay J wings and tail blackish, edged with olive. — Female, desti- 

 tute of the rufous crown. 



This species, in small numbers, arrives in the Middle 

 and Northern States in the month of April ; some also 

 probably proceed as far as Labrador. While here, like 

 many other transient passengers of the family, they ap- 

 pear extremely busy in quest of their restless insect prey. 

 They frequent low, swampy thickets, are rare, and their 

 few feeble notes are said scarcely to deserve the name of 

 a song. These stragglers remain all summer in Penn- 

 sylvania, but the nest is unknown. They depart in Sep- 

 tember, or early in October, and some probably winter in 

 the southernmost States, as they were met with, in Febru- 

 ary, by Wilson, near Savannah. This is a different spe- 

 cies from the Palm Warbler, which probably does not 

 exist in the United States. 



This bird appears yet to be very little known. Pen- 

 nant has most strangely blended up its description with 

 that of the Ruby-crowned Wren ! his supposed female 

 being precisely that bird. 



The length of this species is about 5^ inches, and the alar extent 8 

 to 9. The breast streaked with bay ; crown of the head, from the base 

 of the bill, the same color. Rump yellow ; tail coverts greenish yel- 

 low; the wings dark blackish brown, edged with yellow olive ; cov- 



