WARBLERS: GOLDEN PILEOLATED WARBLER 633 
In the willows at 11,000 feet below Pecos Baldy, where we found 
a pair feeding young the last week in July, an adult was already in the 
midst of its molt; and on September 17, at 8,800 feet on the mountains 
above Taos, the jaunty little migrants were common in the alders, 
some with black caps, some without. On September 23, 1904, at 
Horse Lake, they were flitting about in the oak brush, and on September 
28, at the Burford Lakes, they were seen in the tules and found common¬ 
ly in the cottonwoods. Wherever seen, when not too preoccupied, the 
little yellow beauty will stop to peer up at you from under his black 
cap with pert curiosity, whipping off with an air of saying “ Whoever 
you are, it's all the same to me!” 
Additional Literature.—Saunders, A. A., Condor, XXVI, 209-213, 1924 
(bird sounds). 
GOLDEN PILEOLATED WARBLER: Wilsonia pusilla chryseola Ridgway 
Description. —Like the Pileolated but slightly smaller and much brighter 
colored, upperparts much more yellowish, underparts more intense yellow. 
Range.- —Breeds in Upper Sonoran and Canadian Zones of the Pacific coast 
district from British Columbia to southern California; migrates to eastern Oregon, 
Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, and Lower California. 
State Records. —A young female was taken by Ned Hollister, September 24, 
1905, at Riley, Socorro County.—W. W. Cooke. 
AMERICAN REDSTART: Setophaga ruticflla (Linnaeus) 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 4.6-5 inches, wing 2.4-2.6, tail 2-2.3, bill 
.3-.4, tarsus .6-7. Female: Length (skins) 4.4-4.S inches, wing 2.3-2.6, tail 2-2.3, 
tarsus .6-.7. Bill broad at base, rictal bristles present. Adult male: Black , except 
for salmon or orange patches on sides of breast, wings, and tail, and white median 
underparts. (In winter plumage, feathers of throat and breast often with white tips, 
those of back with brown.) Adult female: Upperparts grayish olive, underparts white; 
orange of male replaced by pale yellow. (In winter plumage, throat and breast washed 
with buffy.) Immature male: Similar to adult female but colors deeper and in some 
specimens black feathers coming in on head and breast. Young in juvenal plumage: 
Upperparts grayish brown, underparts grayish white, pale gray on chest; wings and 
tail as in adults but wings with two white or pale yellowish bands. 
Comparisons. —The long fan tail with its orange or yellow markings distinguish 
the Redstart in any plumage. 
Range. —Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and Upper Austral Zones from north- 
central British Columbia, west central Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, northern 
Quebec, Labrador, and Newfoundland south to North Carolina, Alabama, central 
Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, northern Utah, and Washington; winters from Lower 
California, Mexico, and West Indies, to Ecuador and British Guiana; casual in 
Oregon, California, Lower California, Arizona, and northern Quebec. 
State Records. —The only records of the Redstart in New Mexico are those of a 
pair seen at Shiprock on May 27, 1907 (Gilman), and of a single bird taken at Kings¬ 
ton August 24, 1904 (Metcalfe), now in the collection at Mesilla Park. The species 
breeds in Colorado and winters in eastern Mexico, so that it may occur as a migrant 
