RED-HEADED WARBLER. 



735 



yellow ; lower part and belly pure rich yellow : 

 round the eye a narrow ring of yellowish white : 

 upper mandible of the beak pale brown, lower 

 whitish : irides dark hazel : legs long and slender, 

 of a pale flesh-colour : a bird, supposed by Wilson 

 to be the female, had the throat dull buff. In- 

 habits Connecticut and Philadelphia: nest and 

 eggs unknown. 



RED -HEADED WARBLER. 



(Sylvia petechia.) 



Sy. olivacea, suhtus fiava, rubra guttata^ pileo rubra. 

 Olive Warbler, beneath yellow, spotted with red j top of the 

 head red. 



Sylvia petechia. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 535. 103. — VieiL Ois. de 

 l*Amer, Sept. 2. 32. Wils. Amer, Orn. 4. I/. 



Motacilla petechia. Lin. Syst. Nat, 1. 334. 30. — Gmel, Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 983. 



Ficedula pensylvanica erythrocephalos. Briss, Orn. 3. 488. 4^. 

 Figuier ^ tete rouge de Pensylvanie. Buff", Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 

 286. 



La Fauvette a tete rouge de Pensylvanie. Vieil. Ois. del* Amer. 



Sept. 2. 32. pi. gi. 

 Yellow Redpole. Edwards. Glean, 256. — Wils. Amer, Orn, 4. 



17. pi. xxviu.y, 4, 

 Eed-headed Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 401. 289. — Lath» 



Gen. Syn. 4. 479. 99. 



This bird inhabits Pensylvania, where it makes 

 its first appearance in March, and retires in the 

 autumn: it frequents bushy places, and is a soli- 



