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{7)Dendroeca ignola Maynard, Contributions to Science, i, Apr., 1889, 30, pi. 3, 

 fig. 1 (Homestead, St. Andiews, Jamaica, Apr. 4, 1879; coll. Kingston, Jamaica, 

 Museum). 



{1)Dendroica ignota Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 123 (crit.). 



DENDROICA PALMARUM HYPOCHRYSEA Ridgway. 

 YELLOW PALM WARBLER. 



Similar to D. p. palmarum^ but decidedly larger, and with the under 

 parts entirely yellow, even in winter and immature plumages; sides of 

 chest more often streaked with chestnut, the streaks broader; color of 

 back, etc., more olive, often inclining to olive-green. 



Young {first plumage). — Above grayish brown, the pileum streaked 

 with dusky, the back and scapulars with T-shaped markings of the 

 same; lower rump and upper tail-coverts russet; wings and tail as in 

 adults, but tertials passing into russet along edges, the middle and 

 greater wing-coverts with small terminal spots of pale russet or rusty 

 buff; under parts whitish, tinged with yellow, everywhere, except on 

 chin, abdomen and under tail-coverts (the latter entirely 3^ellow) 

 heavily streaked with dusk3^ 



Adult />mZ6^— Length (skins), 118.1-12^.5 (122.2); wing, 61.3-70.6 

 (67.1); tail, 51.8-56.9 (54.6); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 

 19.3-20.6 (20.1); middle toe, 11.9-12.9 (12.1).' 



Adult female.— hQ\\g\h (skins), 111.3-119.1 (116.6); wing, 62-65.8 

 (64.1); tail, 51.3-53.1 (52.3); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 

 19.3-20.3 (19.6); middle toe, 11.9-12.4 (12.2)."' 



Atlantic coast district of United States and British Provinces; breed- 

 ing from eastern Maine (vicinity of Calais), New Brunswick, and Nova 

 Scotia northward, probably to Newfoundland, southern Labrador, and 

 province of Quebec;^ in winter, North Carolina (?), South Carolina (?), 

 northern and western Florida (Tarpon Springs, Punta Rassa, etc.). 

 Key West, Tortugas (Garden Key, March), and along Gulf coast to 

 Louisiana; accidental in Cuba and Jamaica (Kingston, 1 specimen, 

 December 20, 1890) and in northern Ohio (Oberlin, 1 specimen, April 

 16, 1892). Occasional in Bermudas in winter^ * 



Sylvia petechia (not Motadlla pelecMa Linnteus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 

 32, part (Pennsylvania). — Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 19, pi. 28, fig. 4. — Bona- 

 PARtE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 198; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 

 83. — NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 364. — Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., ii, 1834, 259, 360, pis. 163, 164.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 307.— 

 McCuLLOCH, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., iv, 1844, 406 (habits). — Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 80. 



Sylvicola petechia Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 58, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 

 55, pi. 90.— (?) Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermudas, Dec. 17, 1847).— 



^ Nine specimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



^ I can find no record of its breeding in Newfoundland, Labrador, or Quebec, but 

 the species has been recorded from the first and last mentioned. (See synonymy.) 

 * Possibly the Bermuda records pertain to D. p. palmancm. 



