YELLOW RED- POLL WARBLER.] y 



This little species is four inches and a half long, and six 

 inches and a half in breadth ; the front, and between the bill 

 and eyes, is black ; the upper part of the head and neck, a fine 

 Prussian blue ; upper part of the back, brownish yellow ; 

 lower, and rump, pale blue ; wings and 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 feathers 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 EED-POLL WAEBLER. {Sylvia petechia) 



PLATE XXVIII.— Fig. 4. 



Red-headed Warbler, Turton, i. 605.— PeaWs 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.— Sylvieola petechia, North. Zool. ii. 

 p. 215. 



This 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 favourite places of 

 resort. It is not numerous, and its notes are undeserving the 



on the edges of different mosses ; it is placed in the fork of a small twig, 

 near the extremity of the branch. The eggs are pure white, with a few 

 reddish dots at the longer end. Mr Audubon thinks two broods are 

 raised in the year. — Ed. 



