Il8 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



235. Dendroica palmarum palmarum (Gmelin). 

 Palm Warbler. 



The commonest bird in Cuba, as it is over much of Florida, during the 

 winter months. Its bobbing tail may be seen by every dusty roadside, 

 along fences, in pastures, gardens and in the very cities themselves — 

 if there be a park with any cover. They come in September and retire late 

 in April, the males having begun to assume the nuptial dress just as they 

 leave. The birds seem to be such an essential part of the Cuban winter 

 landscape that it is hard to believe that they are not natives. 



236. Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea Ridgway. 

 Yellow Palm Warbler. 



Cory recorded (Auk, vol. 9, p. 273, 1892) both races of the Palm 

 Warbler in a list of birds " actually taken " during a visit he made to 

 Gundlach in the previous winter. It is not improbable that this race may 

 occur occasionally among the vast numbers of palmarum that throng the 

 Island every winter. 



237. Oporornis formosus (Wilson). 

 Kentucky Warbler. 



The Kentucky Warbler is a rare, accidental visitor. Gundlach found 

 one dead on the roof of a house in Havana in August. It had flown against 

 a white wall. Later he killed another in April at Cojimar. 



