YELtOW-POLL WARBLER. 



751 



La Fauvette tachet6e. Vieil. Ois, de VAmer, Sept, 2, 35. pi. g5, 

 St. Domingo Warbler. Lath, Gen. Syn, 4. 479. 100. 

 Yellow-poll Warbler. Pen. Arct, Zool, 2. 292. — Lath, Gen, Syn, 

 4. 515. ua.-^Lath, Syn. Sup. 183. 



Length nearly five inches : beak blackish : 

 irides blue : the upper parts of the body are olive- 

 green : the under parts and the head fine yellow : 

 the neck, breast, and sides, longitudinally spotted 

 with reddish : the quills and tail are brown, edged 

 with olive-green ; the two middle feathers of the 

 latter entirely dark brown ; the outer ones yellow 

 within : legs blackish : one sex has the top of the 

 head greyish. 



Common in many parts of America and the 

 West Indies : it appears in Canada and Hudson^s 

 Bay in the summer, and retires in the autumn to 

 the south : it breeds in the latter place, and its 

 nest is constructed amongst willows ; it is com- 

 posed of moss, hair, grass, and feathers, well 

 woven together; it is placed at various heights 

 from the ground: the female lays from three to 

 five white eggs, sprinkled with rusty spots : it has 

 a very agreeable note* 



V. X. p. II. 



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