250 DENDRCECA PALM ARUM 



Dcndroecii palmnrum, Scl. PZS. 1861, 7i (Jamaica).— J.Z6rec/t(, J. f.0. 1802,193 (Jamaica). 



Blak. 1 ;is, V. 1,SC3, (X—Mollwr. Pr. Ess. lust. v. 1866, 86.— Ooiies, Pr. Bost. Soc. sii. 1868, 



109 (South Carolina, iu winter).— CottM, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 274.— ySttnd. Oefv. K. 



Vet.-Akad. Forh. iii. 1809, GIG.—Ouues, Pr. Phila.Acad. xxiii. 1871, 21.— Oowes, Key, 



187-', 101.— Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 208 (Florida, wintering).— Jlfa(/«. Guide, 1870, 



104.— Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 36ii.—Mayn. B. Fla. 1873, 52.— Cowes, BNW. 



1874, GT.— Gentry, Life-EList. i. 1876, 132.— Jlinof, B. N. Engl. 1877, 122.— Merr. Tr. Conn. 



Acad. iv. 1877, la. 

 Sylvia petechia, Wits. AO. vi. 1812, 19, pi. 28, f. 4.—Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 198.— 



Bp. Ann. Lye. N. T. ii. 1826, SS.-Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 364.— Aud. OB. ii. 1834, 259, 300, pis. 



163, 164.— Peab. Eop. Orn. Mass. 1839, 307.— McCulloch, Journ. Bost. Soc. iv. 1844, 406 



(habits ; makes it a Seiurus).—Tlwmps. Nil. Vermont, 1853, 80. 

 SjlvlCOla pctccliia, S. (S-R. FBA. ii. 1831, 215, pi. 41.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 58.—Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 



55, pl.90.—iro2/,Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 3\0.—Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 207.— TFiHis, 



Smiths. Rep. for 1858, 1850, 2S2.—Hoy, Smiths. Kep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri).- 



Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114. 

 Phjllopneustc petechia, Boie, Isis, 1828, 321. 

 Mnlutllta petechia, Graij, G. of B. i. 1848, 196 (= Wils. pi. 28, f. 4). 

 Sylvicola petechea, Pratten, Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 18.")5, 602. 



S) Ivlcola rullcapilla, Bj). CGL. 1838, 22.— Bp. CA. i. 1850, 307. (Not Mot. ruficapilla Gm.) 

 RliimaniphU!>i ruflcaplllus, Gundl. J. f. 0. 1855, 473 (Cuba) ; 1861, 408 (same). 

 Bimhele ou Fausse Llnote, Buf. "v. 330". 



Palm Warbler, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 498, n. 133 (cites Bimbele of Buffon). 

 Fauvette bimbele, V. N. D. d'H. N. xi. 1817, 168.— K EM. ii. 1823, 421. 

 Bec-fln blmble, DOrb. 1. c. 



Fauvette ti tete rouge, Leilfoine,Ois.Canad. 1861, 195. 

 Yellow Ucd-poll Warbler (not of Edw.), Palm Warbler, Authors. 



b. hypochrysea 



Dendrfleca palmarum hypochrysea, Eidgw. Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, 84. 



Note (l). — The " Yellow Eed-poll" of Edwards, pi. 256, f. 2, basis of M. petechia L., and 

 wrongly ascribed to Pennsylvania by the early authors, is the West Indian conspecies of 

 X>. cestiva, as any one may be satisfied by a glance at the figure. Being ascribed to Penn- 

 sylvania, it was not unnaturally mistaken for the present species by some who never saw 

 Edwards's plate, and never read Brisson's elaborate description ; for the terms of the Lin- 

 nsean diagnosis make it equally applicable to the present species. Wilson transferred the 

 asLvae petechia, wiih Edwards's English name, to this species, and many have followed him, 

 the "Yellow Ked-poU" of late and current vernacular being thus applied to the present 

 species. — The first tenable name ia palmarmn Gm., based on the Bimbele of Buflon, which 

 became the "Palm Warbler" of Latham. — Bonaparte called the bird ruficapilla in 1838 

 and 1850; but the original ruficapilla Gm., Lath., after Ficedula martinicana Brisson, was 

 another West Indian cestiva-\ik.& bird, which Latham and Pennant called the Bloody- 

 sided Warbler. — My index-slips include many West Indian citations of "petechia", but I 

 am afraid to use them, as I cannot tell now whether they refer to true petechia or to pal- 

 marum, which latter occurs in the West Indies. 



Note (2). — A recent paper by Mr. Eidgway, " On Geographical Variation in Dendroeca 

 palmarum ", < Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, pp. 81-87, separates the species into two subspecies, 

 D. palmarum subs, jmlmarum, and D. palmarum subs, hypochrysea. The range of the 

 former is given as follows : — " Mississij.pi Valley during the migrations ; breeding in the 

 interior of British America, wintering iu the Gulf States, from Texas to Western and 

 Southern Florida, and West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, and Bahamas). Cas- 

 ual in certain Atlantic Stales (but not in New England ?)." The new variety is assigned 

 as follows : — " Atlantic States, from East Florida (in winter) ta Nova Scotia. Breeding in 

 Maine and northward aud wintering iu the South Atlantic States; apparently not found 

 at all in the West Indies, nor in Southern and Western Florida ! " It being scarcely or 

 not practicable to rearrange the synonymy of the species in conformity with the subspo- 

 cific distinction here drawn, I have left all the prior names and references under tho 

 original, and have formed no opinion respecting the merits of the case as presented by 

 Mr. Eidgway. 



Hab. — Eastern Province of the United States and temperate British Amer- 

 ica. West only to the Lower Missouri and Texas. North to Labrador, Hud- 



