150 WARBLER. 



196 —YELLOW-POLL WARBLER. 



Sylvia sestiva, Ind. Orn. ii. 551. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 35. 

 Motacilla aestiva, Gm. Lin. i. 996. 



Sylvia citrinella, Blue-eyed yellow Warbler, Am. Orn. ii. pi. 15. f. 4. 

 Ficedula Canadensis, Bris. iii. 492. t. 26. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 444. 

 Le Figuier tachete, Buf. v. 285. PI. enl. 28. 2. 



Yellow-poll Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 515. Id. Sup. 183. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 292. 

 Sh^v's Zool. x. 750. Frankl. Narr. Ap. p. 674. 



LENGTH four inches and a half; breadth six inches and a half 

 Bill black; iridesblue; head, all beneath, and under wing coverts 

 fine yellow, marked on the neck and breast with longitudinal reddish 

 spots; the upper parts, and edges of the quills olive yellow; quills 

 brown, margined with yellow; tail as the quills, the two middle 

 feathers wholly dark brown ; the others brown on the outer webs 

 and tips, the rest of the feather yellow ; inner webs yellow ; the legs 

 black. In the female the spots on the breast are scarcely visible, 

 and narrow; the yellow above inclines to olive; quills and tail as in 

 the male: in one specimen the inner webs were full yellow. 



Inhabits America, found as far as Hudson's Bay in summer; is 

 first seen there in June, chiefly among the willows in the woods ; is 

 perpetually flying from tree to tree, and makes a soft noise, by some 

 thought agreeable, and compared to that of a Linnet : it makes a 

 compact nest of moss, grass, hair, and feathers interwoven, at the 

 bottom of a bush, though sometimes higher up, and lays from three 

 to five white eggs, marked with rust-coloured spots ; called in 

 Hudson's Bay, Sowowpethaysish ; is found also in Guiana, and parts 

 adjacent in summer, but is not common there ; called, by some, the 

 Mock Canary Bird. Met with also in Georgia, but considered there 

 as a rare species. 



