YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. Q71 
tail, black; the former crossed with two bars of white, and edged with 
blue ; the latter marked on the inner webs of the three exterior feath- 
ers with white, a circumstance common to a great number of the 
genus; immediately above and below the eye is a small touch of 
white; the upper mandible is black; the lower, as well as the whole 
throat and breast, rich yellow, deepening about its middle to orange 
red, and marked on the throat with a small crescent of black; on the 
edge of the breast is a slight touch of rufous; belly and vent, white ; 
legs, dark brown; feet, dirty yellow. The female wants both the 
black and orange on the throat and breast; the blue on the upper 
parts is also of a duller tint. 
YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER.—SYLVIA PETECHIA. — 
Fie. 130. 
Red-headed Warbler, Turton, i. 605. — Peale’s Museum, No. 7124. 
SYLVICOLA PETECHIA. — Swainson. 
Lath, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 535. — Sylvia petechia, Bonap. Synop. p. 83. — Red-headed 
Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 401.— Sylvicola petechia, North. Zool. ii. 
p. 215. 
Tus delicate little bird arrives in Pennsylvania early in April, 
while the maples are yet in blossom, among the branches of which it 
may generally be found at that season, feeding on the stamina of the 
flowers, and on small winged insects. Low, swampy thickets are its 
favorite places of resort. It is not numerous, and its notes are unde- 
serving the name of song. It remains with us all summer, but its nest 
has hitherto escaped me. It leaves us late in September. Some of 
them probably winter in Georgia, having myself shot several, late in 
February, on the borders of the Savannah River. 
Length of the Yellow Red-Poll, five inches; extent, eight; line 
over the eye, and whole lower parts, rich yellow ; breast, streaked with 
dull red ; upper part of the head, reddish chestnut, which it loses in 
winter; back, yellow olive, streaked with dusky; rump, and tail- 
coverts, greenish yellow; wings, deep blackish brown, exteriorly 
edged with olive; tail, slightly forked, and of the same color as the 
wings. 
The female wants the red cap, and the yellow of the lower part is 
ae brilliant; the streaks of red on the breast are also fewer and less 
istinct. 
