diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/sample_data/feeds/feed-sample3.xml b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/sample_data/feeds/feed-sample3.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ddbe8d4db..000000000
Binary files a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/sample_data/feeds/feed-sample3.xml and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_xml.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_xml.py
index 1167c3667..fd59a446b 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_xml.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_xml.py
@@ -27,13 +27,6 @@ class UtilsXmlTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(attrs, 
                          [(['001'], ['Name 1'], ['Type 1']), (['002'], ['Name 2'], ['Type 2'])])
 
-    def test_iterator_utf16(self):
-        samplefile = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "sample_data", "feeds", "feed-sample3.xml")
-        body = open(samplefile).read()
-        response = Response(domain="example.com", url="http://example.com", headers={"Content-type": "text/xml; encoding=UTF-16"}, body=body)
-        self.assertEqual([x.x("@id").extract() for x in xpathselector_iternodes(response, 'product')],
-                         [['34017532'], ['34017557'], ['34017563'], ['34018057'], ['34018313'], ['34018599']])
-
     def test_iterator_text(self):
         body = u"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><products><product>one</product><product>two</product></products>"""