. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . February, by Wilson,near Savannah. This is a different species from the PalmWarbler, which probably does not exist in the UnitedStates. This bird appears yet to be very little known. Pen-nant has most strangely blended up its description withthat of the Ruby-crowned Wren! his supposed femalebeing precisely that bird. The length of this species is about 5£ inches, and the alar extent 3to 9. The breast streaked with bay; crown of the head, from the base SUMMER YELLOW-BIRD OR WARBLER. 417 of the bill, the same col
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . February, by Wilson,near Savannah. This is a different species from the PalmWarbler, which probably does not exist in the UnitedStates. This bird appears yet to be very little known. Pen-nant has most strangely blended up its description withthat of the Ruby-crowned Wren! his supposed femalebeing precisely that bird. The length of this species is about 5£ inches, and the alar extent 3to 9. The breast streaked with bay; crown of the head, from the base SUMMER YELLOW-BIRD OR WARBLER. 417 of the bill, the same color. Rump yellow; tail converts greenishyellow; the wings dark blackish brown, edged with yellow olive;coverts and tertials edged with pale brown (in the spring when thefeathers are worn). Tail a little forked, and of the color of the wings;the 2 lateral feathers with a large spot of pure white near to theirtips. Legs and bill dusky brown, the latter shorter and more slenderthan in S. cestiva.— In the young male the bay of the crown is edged,and the breast spotted with SUMMER YELLOW-BIRD or WARBLER. (Sylvicola astica, Swains. Sylvia (estiva, Lath. Audubon, pi. 95.[adult], and pi. 35. .S. Childreni, [young]. Orn. Biog. i. p. citrinella, Wilson, ii. p. HI. pi. 15. fig. 5, [male.] Buffon, 58. No. 1. [female.] Phil. Museum, No. 7266.) Spec. Ciiai^act. — Greenish-yellow; crown and beneath bright yel-low ; breast and sides streaked with rufous orange; lateral tail-feathers interiorly yellow. — Female with the breast unspotted. —Young greenish, inclining to olive above; and with the throatnearly white. f Tins very common and brilliant summer species isfound in all parts of the American continent from the con- 41S INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. fines of the arctic circle* to Florida and Texas, as well asOregon and the Rocky Mountains, where it spends themild season. About the middle of March, I already heardtheir song amidst the early blooming thickets and leafywoo
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