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YELLOW RED-POLLEU WARBLER. 



The Black-tliroatecl Blue Warblers pass Massachusetts on their wa^- north in Mm y, 

 returning in September. I found them alnuidant in September at Watsontown, Pennsyl- 

 vania on the third of the month and they continued common Ibr ;i few days. They do 

 not appear to be a winter visitor to the more northern of the Bahamas, but some iij)penr 

 in spring and autumn; thus I found a few near Nassau on March 4th, 1881, iuid observed 

 some on Andros diu-ing April of that same year. I shot a single female in Nassau Novem- 

 ber 15th, 1887. Fai-ther south they winter, for I obtiiined a feAv on Inngua in Februai'v, 

 1888. Their skins were conmion in the collection of the Institute of Jamaica at Kingston, 

 but I did not (ind any on the Caymans until April 21st, when I shot a single male. 



Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea. 



Yellow Red-polled Warbler. 



Dendroeca palmarum Baird (in part.) Birds of North America, 1858, 288. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sub Sp. Ch. Form, rather slender. Size, not large. Bill, moderate, quite slender, and somewhat 

 acuminate. Wings, moderate. Tail, rather long, slightly rounded and eraarginate. Feet, quite small. 



Sternum, narrower than those of the three preceding species and 

 slightly built. Tongue, narrow, rather thin, bifid, and fringed on 

 the end with quite long cilia, which expend along the side for one- 

 third of its terminal length. 



CoLOiL Adult male. Above, yellowish olive becoming brighter 

 on the rump. Top of head, chestnut red. Wings and tail, brown, 

 with the feathers edged with the same color as those of the back. 

 The two outer tail feathers have terminal spots of white on their 

 inner webs : that on the outer occupies about one-third of the 

 length of the feather, almost the entire space from vein to margin, 

 leaving a ^■ery small spot of dark at the termination and ending in 

 very slightly oblique lines toward the base, ( See Fig. It5. ) The 

 spot on the ne.xt ipiill is of the same form, but is only about one-half as long. Beneath, including under 

 wing coverts and under tail coverts, bright yellow, streaked or spotted across the breast, on the sides of the 

 throat and sides with chestnut red. There is a superciliary stripe of yellow. The lores and car coverts are 

 dusky, the latter mixed with chestnut red. 



Adult female, similar to the male but without as much chestnut on the crown. In auUimn there is a 

 brownish suflFusion above which extends over the crown. The yellow beneath is also obscured by a whitisli 

 suffusion. Young male, deep olive brown above, with scarcely a trace of chestnut on the crown. Beneath, 

 dirty white, with a faint indication of yellow on the breast and sides, but which become brighter on the under 

 tail coverts. In place of the chestnut stripes of the breast, sides, etc., the feathers have dusky centers. 

 Young female, similar, but with no tr.ace of chestnut on the crown and but little yellow below excepting the 

 under tail coverts. In all stages the irides, feet, and bill are brown ; the latter lighter at the base of the lower 

 mandible. Nestlings. Description of a specimen obtained in Nova Scotia in August. Bill, very short 

 and slender, (.40 long by .12, ) black at base. The bill of the adult is .IG thick. Above, rufous ashy, 

 streaked everywhere with dusky. There is a spot of yellow at base of upper mandible but no decided super- 

 ciliary line. Wings, brown, edged with reddish ashy, and which broadens out into drop shaped marks, 

 which, in a measure, form bands Beneath, soiled white, tinged on throat and across breast with yellow, 



Fig. O.J. Head and outer tail 

 feather of adult male Yellow Red- 

 polled Warbler in spring. 



