Conspicuously Yellow and Orange 
Yellow Redpoll Warbler 
(Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea) Wood Warbler family 
Called also: YELLOW PALM WARBLER 
Length—5.5 to 5.75 inches. A little smaller than the English 
sparrow. 
Wale and Female—Chestnut crown. Upper parts brownish olive; 
greenest on lower back. Underneath uniform bright yellow, 
streaked with chestnut on throat, breast, and sides. Yellow 
line over and around the eye. Wings unmarked. Tail 
edged with olive-green; a few white spots near tips of outer 
quills. More brownish above in autumn, and with a grayish 
wash over the yellow under parts. 
Aeange—Eastern parts of North America. Nests from Nova Scotia 
northward. Winters in the Gulf States. 
Migrations—April. October. Spring and autumn migrant. 
While the uniform yellow of this warbler’s under parts in 
any plumage is its distinguishing mark, it also has a flycatcher’s 
trait of constantly flirting its tail, that is at once an outlet for its 
superabundant vivacity and a fairly reliable aid to identification. 
The tail is jerked, wagged, and flirted like a baton in the hands 
of an inexperienced leader of an orchestra. One need not go to 
the woods to look for the restless little sprite that comes north- 
ward when the early April foliage is as yellow and green as its 
feathers. It prefers the fields and roadsides, and before there are 
leaves enough on the undergrowth to conceal it we may come to 
know it as well as it is possible to know any bird whose home 
life is passed so far away. Usually it is the first warbler one sees 
in the spring in New York and New England. With all the 
alertness of a flycatcher, it will dart into the air after insects that 
fly near the ground, keeping up a constant chip, chip, fine and 
shrill, at one end of the small body, and the liveliest sort of tail 
motions at the other. The pine warbler often bears it company. 
With the first suspicion of warm weather, off goes this hardy 
little fellow that apparently loves the cold almost well enough to 
stay north all the year like its cousin, the myrtle warbler. It 
builds a particularly deep nest, of the usual warbler construction, 
on the ground, but its eggs are rosy rather than the bluish white 
of others. 
In the Southern States the bird becomes particularly neigh- 
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