-RED-HEADED, AND BLACK-POLL WARBLEH. 401 



-white: inner fides of the primaries edged with white: coverts of 



4:he tail black; two middle feathers of the tail dufky ; the middle part 



^of the inner webs of the reft white j the tops and bottoms black. 



Inhabits Penfylvania, „ 



"lacx. 



Yellow Red-poll, SJau. 2c6. -on 



\a mi u- r- o<2 t r •■ '^9- Red-head, 



Motacilla petechia, Lm. Syjl. 334^ — Latham, 11.479. 



Le figuier a, tete rouge -de J'enfylvanie, BriJJin, iii. 488. — De Biifon,i!. 2S6, 

 — Bl. Mus. 



^ "With the crown fcarlet : cheeks yellow: hind part of the 

 neck, back, and rump, of an olive-green : wings and tail 

 -dufliy, edged with yellow: all the under fide of the body of a rich 

 yellow, fpeckled with red, except the vent, which is plain. A bird, 

 which I fufpeft to be the Female,, fliot in Newfoundland, had the 

 fcarlet crown j but the upper part of the body was dufliy, edged 

 ^ith pale brown : coverts of the tail white : primaries and tail dufky : 

 breaft and belly of a dirty white, and unfpottecL 



Vifits Penfylvania in March. Is a lonely bird, keeping in thickets Placi 



.and low bullies. Does not breed there ; but goes farther north to 

 breed ; probably to Canada and Newfoundland. Feeds on infefts. 



TIX/''^ With the crown black: cheeks white : upper part of the 290. Black-poll. 



body afli-colored, with long black ftrokes pointing to the 

 tail : coverts of the wings and primaries dufky; the firft marked with 

 .'two white bars': the fecondaries edged with white : tail dufky,; ends 

 ■of the two outmoft feathers marked with a white fpot : throat white^ 

 ftreaked on each fide with black: breaft and belly of a dirty white, 

 ftreaked downwards with black : legs whitifii. 



Inhabits, during fummer, Newfoundland and New Tork ; called in f lacsJ 



the laft, Sailor. Arrives there in May ; breeds j ^nd retires in Au^ 

 gujl. Bh.Mvs.-^Laikamj ii. 460. 



■ 5;F. m With 



