PALM WARBLER 



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what contracted brim, composed of vegetable down or soft fiber mixed 

 with some fine straws and a few leaves or feathers, lined with hair 

 and very fine straws." 



Eggs. — 3 to 5, usually 4. Ground color white to pale greenish 

 white marked with specks, spots and small blotches of chestnut-brown, 

 burnt umber, purplish brown and many under shell-markings of 

 lavender grayish. In some types the markings form beautiful wreathes 

 about the large end with the rest of the egg comparatively clear of 

 spots; others have the wreath very indistinct and many scattering 

 spots and specks over the entire tgg; a few extremes, in a large 

 series, have the wreath around the small end. Size ; average .64X.49 ; 

 extremes measure .69X.51, .55X.47. (Figs. 84-86.) 



Nesting Dates. — Savannah, Ga., April 25 (C. IV. C.) ; Raleigh, 

 N. C, May 16 (Brimley) ; New Haven, Conn., May 27-June 25 

 (Bishop) ; Cambridge, Mass., full sets, first laying. May 28-June 5 

 (Brezcster) ; Ottawa Co., Mich., May 26, Gibbs (Barrows). 



Biographical References 



(i) E. B. CouES, Nesting of the Prairie Warbler in the Vicinity of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, Auk, V, 1888, 405. (2) H. K. Jamison, Nesting of the Prairie 

 Warbler in Fairfax Co., Va.. Orn. and 061., XIV, 1889, 85. (3) C. S. Brimley, 

 Nesting of the Prairie Warbler at Raleigh, N. C, Orn. and 061., XV, 1890, 

 165. (4) Wm. Brewster, Birds of the Cambridge Region, 346. 



Palm Warbler 



DENDROICA PALMARUM PALMARUM (Gmel.) Plate XVI 



Distinguishing Characters. — In adults of both sexes the reddish chestnut 

 crown and yellow throat are diagnostic; while young and winter adults may 

 be known by their brown, more or less streaked upperparts, yellowish upper, 

 and yellow under tail-coverts, streaked underparts, white line over eye, and 

 other characters. Length (skin), 4.70; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.05; bill, .40. 



Adult ^, Spring. — Crown reddish chestnut, line from bill over eye yellow ; 

 back olive grayish brown obscurely streaked, upper tail-coverts yellowish ; two 

 outer tail-feathers with sharply defined white patches at tips of inner webs ; 

 wing-coverts edged with brownish gray not forming conspicuous bars ; throat 

 and upper breast yellow rest of underparts grayish white more or less suffused 

 with yellow, sides brownish, throat and sides streaked with reddish chestnut, 

 under tail-coverts yellow. 



Adult ^, Fall. — Similar to adult c? in Spring but chestnut crown widely 

 tipped with brown, line over eye white or whitish, throat and upper breast 

 suffused with yellow, or whitish without yellow, rest of underparts suffused 

 with yellow, streaks below blacker. 



Young cT, Fall. — Similar to adult d* in Fall but crown with less or even no 

 chestnut, throat usually without yellow. 



