228 PALM WARBLER. 



manent resident of St. Domingo, and other islands of the West Indies, 

 and even describe its nest, and habits, as observed there. 



In the United States, it is found during winter in Florida, where it is, 

 at that season, one of the most common birds. In the month of No- 

 vember, they are very abundant in the neighborhood of St. Augustine 

 in East Florida, even in the town, and in other parts of the territory 

 wherever the orange-tree is cultivated, being rare elsewhere. They are 

 found in great numbers in the orange-groves near Charleston, South 

 Carolina, at the same season, and have also been observed at Key West, 

 and the Tortugas, in the middle of February, and at Key Vacas in the 

 middle of MarcK. Their manners are sprightly, and a jerking of the 

 tail, like the Pewee, characterizes them at first sight from a distance. 

 The only note we have heard them utter, is a simple chirp, very much 

 like that of the Black and Yellow Wai-bler, Sylvia maculosa {]\Iagnolia 

 of Wilson). They are fond of keeping among the thick foliage of the 

 orange-trees. A few are observed every year in spring, on the borders 

 of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, as well as in the central parts of 

 New Jersey, on their passage to the North. They breed in Maine, and 

 other parts of New England, where they are common during summer, 

 and perhaps also in Canada, though probably not extending to the in- 

 hospitable climates of Hudson's Bay, whose natural productions are so 

 well known. 



The bird represented in the plate, was shot near Bordentown, on the 

 seventeenth of April, in the morning. It was a fine adult male, in the 

 gayer plumage of the breeding season, in which it is now for the first 

 time figured, and a description is subjoined. 



Length five inches and a quarter, extent more than eight inches. 

 Bill five-eighths of an inch long, very slender, straight, hardly notched, 

 blackish, paler beneath. Feet dusky-gray, yellowish inside ; irides dark 

 brown, nearly black. Crown bright chestnut-bay, bottom of the plum- 

 age lead-color all over, much darker beneath ; a well defined superciliar 

 line, and the rudiment of another, on the medial base of the upper man- 

 dible, rich yellow : the same color also encircles the eye ; streak through 

 the eyes and cheeks dusky-olive, somewhat intermixed with dull chest- 

 nut ; upper parts olive-green, each feather being dusky in the middle ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts yellow-olive ; all beneath bright yellow ; 

 sides of the neck, breast, and flanks with chestnut streaks ; superior 

 wing-coverts blackish, margined and tipped with olive-green, and some- 

 what tinged with chestnut ; inferior wing-coverts yellowish ; quills 

 dusky, edged exteriorly with green, the outer one with white on the outer 

 side, two exterior with a large white spot on the inner web at tip. 



In the plumage here described, it has been mentioned by several 

 authors, under the name of Sylvia ruficapilla, and by Latham is called 

 the Bloody-side Warbler. I3 that which we are about to describe, it 



