RED-HEADED WARBLER. 



yellow ; lower part and belly pure rich yellow : 

 round the eye a narrow ring of yellowish white : 

 upper mandible of the beak pale brown, lower 

 whitish : irides dark hazel : legs long and slender, 

 of a pale flesh-colour : a bird, supposed by Wilson 

 to be the female, had the throat dull buff. In- 

 habits Connecticut and Philadelphia : nest and 

 eggs unknown. 



RED -HEADED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia petechia.) 



SY. olivacea, subtusflava, rubro guttata, pileo rubro. 



Olive Warbler, beneath yellow, spotted with red j top of the 



head red. 

 Sylvia petechia. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 535. 1O3. Vieil. Ois. de 



I'Amcr. Sept. 2. 32. Wils. Amer. Orn. 4. 1?. 

 Motacilla petechia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 334. 30. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.983. 



Ficedula pensylvanica erythrocephalos. Briss. Orn. 3. 488. 4$. 

 Figuier a tete rouge de Pensylvanie. Btiff*. Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 



286. 

 La Fauvette & tete rouge de Pensylvanie. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. 



Sept. 2. 32.pl.Ql. 

 Yellow Redpole. Edwards. Glean. 256. Wils. Amer. Orn. 4. 



1J.pl. xxvur.^/. 4. 

 Red-headed Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 401. 289.* Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 4. 479- 99- 



THIS bird inhabits Pensylvania, where it makes 

 its first appearance in March, and retires in the 

 autumn : it frequents bushy places, and is a 



