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Dendroica palmarum, li.vmD. 



YELLOW EED-POLL WAKBLEE. 



Motacilla palmarum, Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 17SS, 951 (based on Palm Warbler, L.iTn.\M, Syn. 

 II, p. -198, no. 131, St. Doinini;()). Sylvia p. L.A.TH. ; VlElLLOT, II, pi. Ixxiii. — Box. ; 

 D'OiiB. Sagra"s Cuba, Ois. ISiO, 61, pi. viii. Sylvicola p. SALLfi, P. Z. S. 1857, 231 

 (St. Domingo). Dendroica p. H.^ird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 288; Rev. 207. — ScLATEK, 

 Catal. 1861, 33, no. 199. — Ib. P. Z. S. 1861, 71 (Jamaica; April). — Bryant, Pr. 

 Boat. Soc. VII, 1859 (Bahamas). — Ib. 1867, 91 (Hayti). — Brewer, Pr. Host. Soc. 1867, 

 139. — GnNDLACH, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; very common). — Samuels, 240. 

 Sylvia petechia, WlL-s. VI, pi. xxviii, fig. 4. — Box. ; Nutt. ; AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 

 pi. clxiii, clxiv. Sylvicola petechia., SwAlxs. ; AuD. Birds Am. II, pi. xc. Sylvicola 

 rufirnpilhi, Box. Bhinunqihiis riif. Cab. Jour. Ill, 1855, 473 (Cuba; winter). 



Sp. Char. Adult in spring. Head above chestnut-red; rest of upper parts lirownish 

 olive-gray ; the feathers with darker centres, the color brightening on the rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and outer margins of wing and tail-feathers, to greenish-yellow. A streak from 

 nostrils over the eye, and under parts generally, including the tail-coverts, bright yellow; 

 paler on the body. A maxillary line; breast and sides finely but rather obsoletely streaked 

 with reddish-ljrown. Cheeks brownish (in highest spring plumage chestnut like the head) ; 

 the eyelids and a spot under the eye olive-brown. Lores dusky. A white spot on the 

 inner web of the outer two tail-feather.s, at the end. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.42 ; tail, 

 2.25. Sexes nearly alike. 



Autumnal males arc more reddish above ; under parts tinged with brown, the axiUars 

 yellow. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America to Fort Simpson and Hudson's Bay ; Ba- 

 hamas, Jamaica, Cuba, and St. Domingo in winter. Not noted from Mexico or Central 

 America. 



This specie.s \-ai'ies consideral)lv in diflereiit .stao-es, but can generally be 

 recognized. Immature specimens resemble those of P. tigrina, but differ in 

 the chestnut crown, browner back, less briglit rump, brighter yellow of under 

 tail-coverts, smaller blotches on tail, no white bands on the wings, etc., as 

 well as in the shape of the bill. 



H.\BITS. The Eed-Poll Warhler belongs, in its geogivaphical distribution, 

 to that large class of birds wliicli visit high northern latitudes to breed, pass- 

 ing back and fortli over a wide extent of territory, from the West India 

 I.slands to the extreme northern portions of the continent. Specimens have 

 been procured from (.'uba, .lamaica, St. Domingo, and the Bahamas, in fall, 

 winter, and spring, where, at such times, they seem to be generally quite 

 common. It has not been observed in Mexico or in Central or South 

 America. It has been met with on tlie western shore of Lake ilichigan, 

 but nowhere farther to the west. It has been found in the Eed Eiver Settle- 

 ment, Fort George, Fort Simpson, and Fort Resolution, in the Hudson Bay 

 Territory. It is not known, so far as I am aware, to breed south of latitude 

 44°. Wilson and Nuttall both state that tliis bird remains in Pennsylvania 

 through the suiiuner, liut tliey were probaldy misinformed ; at least, there 

 is no recent evidence to this eflect. Wilson also states that he shot speci- 





