156 WARBLER. 



203 — YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. 



Sylvia maculosa, Lid. Orn. ii. 526. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 33. pi. 92. 

 Motacilla maculosa, Gm. Lin. i. 984. 



Ficedula Pensilvanica naevia, Bris. iii. 502. Ld. 8vo. i. 447. 

 Parus Cedru^uropygio flavo, Yellow Rump, Bartr. Trav. 290. 

 Le Figuier a tete cendree, Buf. v. 291. 

 Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Edw. pi. 255. 



Sylvia coronata, Yellow-rump, Am. Zool. ii. pi. 17. f. 4. Id. Vol. v. pi. 45. f. 3. 

 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 481. Id. Sup. 182. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 288. 

 Shaw's Zool. x. 715. 



SIZE of the Pettichaps. Bill brown ; top of the head and sides 

 ash-colour; neck behind and back olive-green, spotted with black; 

 throat, breast, and rump, fine yellow, marked on the breast with 

 oblong black spots ; belly and vent white ; across the wing two bars 

 of white; quills deep ash, edged with white; the two middle tail 

 feathers black, the others blackish, with a large white spot on the 

 middle of the inner webs ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania. 



A. — Length five inches ; breadth six inches and a half; weight 

 five drachms; irides blue, orbits white; lore and ears black ; on each 

 side of the head a streak of white ; throat and belly light yellow ; 

 breast and thighs longitudinally streaked black and yellow ; vent 

 white ; back black, streaked with dull green ; scapulars green and 

 dove-colour; lesser wing coverts grey, the greater white, longitu- 

 dinally streaked with black ; quills black, edged with grey ; tail 

 coverts yellow, tipped with black nearest the tail, the feathers of 

 which are black edged with white; all of them, except the two 

 middle ones, have a large white spot on the inner web ; legs black. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay in the summer, makes the nest among 

 the willows of grass and feathers, laying four dirty white eggs, with 



