YELLOW RED-POLL, 



breast and region below the eye slightly black-striped, 

 the stripes sometimes extending to the sides. Female 

 similarly marked but much duller in color; the tone of 

 the back browner. Nest in pines, cedars, or other ever- 

 green-trees; it is usually situated more than twenty-five 

 feet above the ground, and is built of bark, leaves, plant 

 fibres, etc. Egg white with red-brown and umber mark- 

 ings mostly at the larger end. This bird is distributed 

 throughout eastern North America; it is a resident of 

 the great pine forests of the southern States; it winters 

 from Illinois and the Carolinas southward. 



The song of the Pine Warbler is a simple so-called 

 trill a reiterated note, with an exceedingly high pitch 

 like that of the Chipping Sparrow. His voice is more 

 musical, and his tones are sharp and clear, without a 

 suggestion of the overtone; the song should appear thus: 



A simple, short, rather musical one, but according to my 

 observations without the shadow of a variation. I am 

 f not sure, though, that this bird does not vary his song; 

 the Chippy does, and why should not he ? My notations 

 are extremely meagre, as well as similar, so I can not 

 promise that there are not variations of the type. 



Yellow Red- This Warbler according to Mr. Chap- 

 P*'/ w*"^ man is a rene S ade Dendroica who is in- 

 Deroica pal- different to the wood and has no particular 

 marum hypo- liking for even the trees in the open. The 

 chrysea last time I saw him he was wagging his 



L. 5.40 inches tail in a tree by the roa!( a s ide in the Mid- 

 dlesex Fells, just north of Boston, entirely 

 disdainful of my chirpings put forth in a vain effort to 

 induce him to " tune up." In colors, he is a bit attrac- 

 tive though not startling. Crown chestnut; back olive 

 green with a brownish tono, greener on the rump; no 

 wing-bars; the inner vanes of the outer tail feathers 



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