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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
expected, from the continual brushing of their feathers among the 
junipers and myrtles, in quest of the berries on which they feed. 
YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 
{Sylvia petechia, Lath. Wilson, iv. p. 19. pi. 28. fig. 4. S. palmarum, 
Bonap. (not of LathamJ, Am. Orn. 2. pi. 10. fig. 2. [adult male]. 
Philad. Museum, No. 7124.) 
Sp. Charact. — Yellow-olive, streaked with dusky; beneath and 
line over the eye yellow ; crown and spots of the breast bright 
bay; wings and tail blackish, edged with olive. — Female , desti- 
tute of the rufous crown. 
This species, in small numbers, arrives in the Middle 
and Northern States in the month of April ; some also 
probably proceed as far as Labrador. While here, like 
many other transient passengers of the family, they ap- 
pear extremely busy in quest of their restless insect prey. 
They frequent low, swampy thickets, are rare, and their 
few feeble notes are said scarcely to deserve the name of 
a song. These stragglers remain all summer in Penn- 
sylvania, but the nest is unknown. They depart in Sep- 
tember, or early in October, and some probably winter in 
the southernmost States, as they were met with, in Febru- 
ary, by Wilson, near Savannah. This is a different spe- 
cies from the Palm Warbler, which probably does not 
exist in the United States. 
This bird appears yet to be very little known. Pen- 
nant has most strangely blended up its description with 
that of the Ruby-crowned Wren ! his supposed female 
being precisely that bird. 
The length of this species is about 5^ inches, and the alar extent 8 
to 9. The breast streaked with bay ; crown of the head, from the base 
of the bill, the same color. Rump yellow ; tail coverts greenish yel- 
low ; the wings dark blackish brown, edged with yellow olive ; cov- 
