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are undergoing prenuptial moult at this season. Another example 

 shot April 17, however, is in moult, and has almost completed the 

 chestnut cap. 



As Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea is merely a straggler in the 

 winter season south of Florida, and as it is practically impossible for 

 any one, even an expert, to distinguish it in the field from true pal- 

 marum with any degree of certainty, I refer all of Mr. Read's records to 

 D. palmarum. 



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121. Dendroica discolor (Vieillot). Prairie Warbler. 



Sylvia discolor Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide 

 Gundlach). 



Dendroica discolor Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 118 (I. of Pines, in geog. 

 distr.). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 70 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 210 (I. of Pines, ex Poey).— Read, Oologist, XXVIII. 

 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). — Read, Bird-Lore, XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). 



"Prairie Warbler" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines, 

 December).— Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 15 

 (I. of Pines; migr.); XXVIII, 191 1, 7 (I. of Pines, November), 113 (West 

 McKinley); XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of Pines, December). — Read, I. of Pines News, 

 VI, Feb. 14, 1914 (I. of Pines). 



Twenty-two specimens: Los Indios, Nueva Gerona, Bibijagua, and 

 Caleta Grande. 



A common winter resident, of which the first specimen was taken on 

 September 26, and the last on April 19, these dates probably including 

 the usual average time of its stay. Mr. Read recorded it in 1915, 

 however, as late as April 28. Only a few of the series secured appear 

 to be adult, brightly colored birds, comparable with those from the 

 southern United States, Porto Rico, etc. The balance seem to be 

 immature; at any rate, they are dull and dark-colored, and many of 

 them show considerable gray on the sides of the head, while the super- 

 ciliaries also are dull-colored. Some of these birds, too, are so worn 

 as to suggest that they had but recently been breeding, but this is of 

 course exceedingly improbable. The favorite haunts of this species 

 in the Isle of Pines are in tracts of low scrub and brushy places, 

 where it contrives to keep well hid.den, dodging about close to the 

 ground. 



122. Dendroica striata (Forster). Black-poll Warbler. 

 "Black-poll Warbler" Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 127 (Santa Barbara), 131 



(I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Feb. 14, 1914 (I. of Pines). 



Three specimens: Caleta Cocodrilos and Los Indios. 



