YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 15' 



YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER* 



Sylvicola cestiva. 



Sylvia astiva et petechia^ Lath. — Aud. pi. 95. 



Sylvia citrinella et petechia., WiLS. 



Sylvia Childrenii {young^ Aud. pi. 35. 



Sylvicola cestiva, Sw. 



Of this very beautiful species, which has been 

 described under so many names, I have specimens in 

 much diversity of plumage, from that in which the 

 chestnut crown, and spots of the breast are deep and 

 conspicuous, to that in which there is no trace 

 either of the one or the other. There is little in 

 their manners to distinguish them from others of 

 this pretty family. They arrive in Jamaica in 

 September, and depart in April ; and, like their 

 fellows, hop about low trees, feeding on small 

 insects. In March, I observed it rather numerous, 

 hopping about the Cleome pentaphylla, and other 

 low shrubs which were then in flower, on the banks 

 of the new cut of the Rio Cobre, not half a mile 

 from the sea of Kingston Harbour. Whenever I 

 have seen it, it has been very near the sea. 



* Length 5^ inches, expanse 8y^o, flexure 2^, tail 2 5^, rictus -^, 

 tarsus -yq, middle toe ^. 



