BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 6 1 



VENDRCECA STRIATA. {Forst.) 

 Black-poll Warbler. 



Adnit Male. — Above, grayish, tinged with brown and streaked 

 with black ; top of the head and nape, black ; under parts, throat, 

 lower sides of the head, and ear -coverts, white ; sides of the 

 throat and body streaked with black ; two white bars on the wing- 

 coverts; wings and tail, brownish; tail-feathers showing white on 

 the inner webs. 



Adult Female. — Upper parts, greenish, streaked with dark 

 brown ; under parts tinged with yellowish. 



Length 5, wing 3, tail 2.16, tarsus .So, bill .40. 



I cannot speak of this bird from personal observation, as I never 

 met with it in the Bahamas. Dr. Bryant, however, found it abun- 

 dant from the ist to the loth of May, and says, " In its habits, this 

 bird approximates very nearly to the M. var-ia, climbing round the 

 trunks of trees in search of insects apparently with the same facility 

 as the latter bird." 



Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. II. pi. 78. 



