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and lower parts (except under tail- 

 coverts) dull whitish (sometimes 

 slightly tinged with j-ellow), the 

 chest and sides streaked with gray- 

 ish brown. Length 4.50-5.50, wing 

 2.35-2.65 (2.52), tail 2.05-2.45 (2.24), 

 tarsus .71-.80 (.76). Hab. Interior 

 of Xorth America, north to Great 

 Slave Lake in summer (southern 

 breeding limit unknown) ; migrating 

 south through Mississippi Valley to 

 Gulf States, Florida, Bahamas, and 

 Greater Antilles; occasional (or 

 casual) during migrations, cast of 



Alleghanies 672. D. palmarum 



(Gjiel.). Palm Warbler. 

 /*. Larger, and much more brightly colored, 

 with entire lower parts bright j-ellow 

 in all stages (except nestling plu- 

 mage) ; upper parts richer or less 

 graj-ish olive than in true palmarum. 

 Young : Above dull grayish brown 

 and olive, broadlj^ streaked with 

 blackish; wing -coverts narrowly 

 tipped with light brown ; lower 

 parts dull whitish, broadly streaked 

 with dusky, the under tail-coverts 

 gamboge yellow. Length 4.90-5.75. 

 wing 2.50-2.80 (2.69), "tail 2.25-2.55 

 (2.43), tarsus .75-.80 (.79). ^'est on 

 ground, in open situations. Efffjs 

 .67 X .52, buffy white, speckled on 

 larger end with brown and lilac- 

 gray. Hab. Atlantic coast of Xorth 

 America, breeding from Xew Bruns- 

 wick and Nova Scotia to Hudson's 

 Bay; in winter, southward ea*t of 

 Alleghanies to Florida, and thence 

 westward to Louisiana. (Not yet 

 found in Bahamas or other portions 

 of West Indies.') 672^. D. pal- 

 marum hypochrysea Einnw. 

 Yellow Palm Warbler. 



• The very distinct winter range of the tno races of Palm Warhler shows the necessity of recoin>iiing such 

 geographical forms. The Kational Museum fjosecsscs specimens of true A palmaram from Cuba, Haiti, and 



