WARBLER. 183 



Lalfi weight five drams. Irides blue j orbits white: lore an^ 

 ears black : on each fide of the head a ftreak of white : throat 

 and belly light yellow : bread and thighs ftreaked longitudinally 

 black and yellow : vent white : back black, ftreaked with dull 

 green : fcapulars green and dove-colour : leiTer wing coverts 

 grey; greater white, longitudinally ftreaked with black: quills 

 black, edged with grey : tail coverts yellow, tipped with black 

 neareft the tail : tail feathers black, edged with white ; all the 

 feathers, except the two middle ones, marked with a large fpot of 

 white on the inner web : legs black. 



This comes \nto Hudfon's Bay in fummer ; builds in the wil- Place avd Mak- 

 lows a neft compofed of grafs and feathers ; lays four eggs ; the I"ERs. 



young hatched in July ; feeds on flies ; cries againft rain, or at 

 leaft has a fhrill fong, which it lengthens out confiderably againft 

 rain ; from which circumftance the natives give it the name of 

 Kimmewan apaykutejhijh*. 1 



Yellow-poll Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 515. N" 148. i ,g. 



YELLOW.POLl 

 ■R. Pennant fuppofes the two birds, defcribed under this title, ^'^ 



to be diftinft fpecies; and mentions the fecond under the 

 title oi Olive PVarbler-f, Mr. Hutchins informs me, that the Tel- 

 low-Poll comes into Hudfon's Bay in June, and that the irides are 

 blue. It is feen chiefly among the willows in woods, and is per- 

 petually flying from tree to tree, and makes a foft noife. The 

 neft fcems well put together, and compofed of mofs, grafs, hair, 

 and feathers, interwoven : fometimes placed at a fmall height up 



,• Mk Hutchins, t ^rii. Zool. N° 307. 



, a tree. 



