SPECIES 30. SYLVIA PETECHIA. 
YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 
[Plate XXVIII.— Fig. 4.] 
Red-headed Warbler, Tukton, i, 605. — Peale’s Museum, Mo. 
7124.* 
This delicate little bird arrives in Pennsylvania early in 
April, while the maples are yet in blossom, among the branch- 
es of which it may generally be found feeding on the stamina 
of the flowers, and on small winged insects. Low swampy thick- 
ets are its favourite places of resort. It is not numerous, and its 
notes are undeserving the name of song. It remains with us all 
summer; but its nest has hitherto escaped me. It leaves us late 
in September. Some of them probably winter in Georgia, hav- 
ing myself shot several late in February, on the borders of the 
Savannah river. 
Length of the yellow Red-poll five inches, extent eight; line 
over the eye, and whole lower parts, rich yellow; breast streak- 
ed with dull red; upper part of the head reddish chestnut, which 
it loses in winter; back yellow olive, streaked with dusky; 
rump and tail-coverts greenish yellow; wings deep blackish 
brown, exteriorly edged with olive; tail slightly forked, and of 
the same colour as the wings. 
The female wants the red cap; and the yellow of the lower 
parts is less brilliant; the streaks of red on the breast are also 
fewer and less distinct. 
* Molacilla petechia, Liuir. Syst. i, p. 334. — GaiEL. Sysl. i, p. 983. — Sylvia pe- 
techia, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 535. — ViEiit. Ois. de V.dim. Sept. pi. 91. — Ficedula 
Pensylvanica erylhrocephalos, Bniss. in, p. 488, 49. — Figuier ^ tele rouge de Peu- 
sylvanie. Buff. Ois. v, p. 286. — Red-headed Warbler, Penn. ,Srct. Zool. it , JVb. 
289.— Lath. Syn. iv, p. 479, 39. 
