186 WARBLER. 



note for so small a bird ; called there, Yellow-breasted Titmouse, 

 havin°* the manners of that Genus, as it creeps up and down the 

 bodies of trees, in search of insects. Is found also in numbers at St. 

 Domingo and Porto Rico. 



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244.— GREY-POLL WARBLER. 



Sylvia incana, Lid. Om. ii. 527. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 45. 



Motacilla incana, Gm, Lin. i. 976. 



Grey-poll Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 461. Arct. Zool. ii. 291. 



IN this the bead, sides of the neck, and upper tail coverts, are 

 fine grey ; chin and breast fine yellow ; throat orange ; belly whitish 

 ash-colour ; wing coverts crossed with two bars of white ; quills and 

 tail dusky. 



Inhabits New York : seems much allied to the Yellow-backed, 

 perhaps differing in age or sex. 



245.— BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 



Sylvia striata, Lid. Om. ii. 527. Vieill. Am. ii. p. 75. 

 Motacilla striata, Gm. Lin. i. 976. 



Fauvette rayee, Vieill. Am. ii. 22. pi. 73. — male. 76. — female. 



Black-poll Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 460. Id. Sup. ii. 243. Arct. Zool. ii. 290. Amer. 

 Om. iii. pi. 30. f. 3.— male. Id. Vol. vi. pi. 54. f. 4.— female. Shaw's Zool. x. 645. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter, breadth eight and three 

 quarters. Bill pale brown ; irides hazel ; crown black ; cheeks 

 white, passing round the nape, as a mottled white ring; plumage on 

 the upper parts ash-colour, streaked with black ; wing coverts and 

 prime quills dusky, the former marked with two white bars; se- 

 condaries edged with white ; throat white, streaked on each side with 

 black ; breast and belly dirty white, streaked downwards with black ; 

 tail dusky, even ; at the end of the two outer feathers a white spot ; 

 legs whitish. 



