AMERICAN WARBLERS. 53 



miles of tide water. They are, howex^er, to be found scatter- 

 ingly throughout other portions of the state, but are every- 

 where of local distribution, their range being restrictedj as al- 

 ready mentioned, to brushy fields and hillsides. They nearly 

 all leave for the south the first week in September. 



YELLOW RED-POLLKD WAKBLEK. 



Denrtroica paliuaruiu liypochrysea. 



Plate V, Fig. 5, male ; Fig. 6, female. 



Size, 5.20 to 5.65. Brownish-green above ; yellow below, 

 with top of head, streaks on sides and across breast, chestnut. 

 Wing bars, indistinct. A common spring and autumn mi- 

 grant. 



Male. Brownish-olive above; becoming yellowish on rump., Beneath, 

 bright yellow. Top of head, a portion of ear coverts, streaks across breast and on 



Fig. 31. 



Head a,nd outer tail feather of Yellow Red-polled Warbler. 



sides, chestnut. Line over eye, yellow. Wing bars, indistinct; pale brownish. 

 Basal outline of spot on outer tail feather, crossing the web at right angles, or 

 a little obliquely ( see Figs. 31 and 32 ). 



Female. Similar to the male, but with less chestnut on the crown, and 

 Avith fewer streaks beneath. 



Adults in Autumn. Not as bright beneath as in spring and the chest- 

 nut of the crown is somewhat obscured with olive-brown. 



