YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 
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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 RED-POLL WARBLER SYLVIA PETECHIA. 
Plate XXVIII. Fig. 4. 
Red-headed Warbler, Turton, i. 605. — Peale's Museum , No. 7124. 
SYLVICOLA PETECHIA. — Swainson. 
Lath. Ind. Orn . ii. p. 535. — Sylvia petechia, JBonap. Synop. p. 83 Red-headed 
Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 401. — 'Sylvicola 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 
swumpy thickets are its favourite places of resort. It is not 
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. 
