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Dendroica palmarum, Baird. 



YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER. 



Motacilla, palmarum, Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 951 (based on Palm Warbler, Latham, Syn. 

 II, p. 498, no. 131, St. Domingo). Sylvia p. Lath. ; Vieillot, \\, pi. Ixxiii. — Box. ; 

 D'Orb. Sagra'.s Cuba, Ois. 1840, 61, pi. viii. Sylvicola p. Sall^, P. Z. S. 1857, 231 

 (St. Domingo). Dcndro'un f. Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 288 ; Rev. 207. — Sclateu, 

 Catal. 1861, 33, no. 199. — Ib. P. Z. S. 1861, 71 (.Jamaica; April). — Bryant, Pr. 

 Best. Soc. Vn, 1859 (Bahamas). — Ib. 1867, 91 (Hayti). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 

 139. — GuNDLACH, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; very common). — Samuels, 240. 

 Sylvia petechia, Wils. Yl, pi. xxviii, fig. 4.^ — Bon.; Nutt. ; Auu. Orn. Biog. II, 

 pi. clxiii, clxiv. Sylvicola petechia. Swains. ; Aud. Birds Am. II, jil. xc. Sylvicola 

 ruficapilla, BoN. Ehimanphics ruf. Cab. Jonr. Ill, 1855, 473 (Cuba; winter). 



Sp. Char. Adult in spring. Head above chestnut-red ; rest of upper parts brownish 

 olive-gray ; the feathers with darker centres, the color brightening on the rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and outer margins of wing and tail-feathers, to greenish-yellow. A streak from 

 nostrils over the eye, and under parts generally, including the tail-coverts, bright yellow; 

 ])aler on the body. A maxillary line; breast and sides finely but rather obsoletely streaked 

 with reddish-brown. Cheeks Ijrownish (in highest spring plumage chestnut like the head) ; 

 the eyelids and a spot under the eye olive-brown. Lores dusky. A white spot on the 

 inner web of the outer two tail-feathers, at the end. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.42 ; tail, 

 2.2.';. Sexes nearly alike. 



Autumnal males are more reddish above ; under parts tinged with brown, the axillars 

 3'ellow. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America to Fort Simpson and Hudson's Bay ; Ba- 

 liamas, Jamaica, Cuba, and St. Domingo in winter. Not noted from Mexico or Central 

 America. 



This species varies considerably in different stages, but can generally be 

 recognized. Inniiature specimens resemble those of F. tigrina, but differ in 

 the chestnut crown, browner back, less bright rump, brigliter yellow of under 

 tail-coverts, smaller blotches on tail, no white bands on the wings, etc., as 

 well as in the shape of the bill. 



Habits. The Ked-Poll Warbler belongs, in its geographical distribution, 

 to that large class of birds which visit high northern latitudes to breed, pass- 

 ing back and forth over a wide extent of territory, from the West India 

 Islands to the extreme northern portions of the continent. Specimens have 

 been procured from Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domingo, and the Bahamas, in fall, 

 winter, and spring, where, at such times, they seem to be generally quite 

 common. It has not been observed in Mexico or in Central or Soutli 

 America. It has been met with on the western shore of Lake IMichigan, 

 l)ut nowhere farther to the west. It has been found in the Eed Eiver Settle- 

 ment, Fort George, Fort Simpson, and Fort Resolution, in the Hudson Bay 

 Territory. It is not known, so far as I am aware, to breed south of latitude 

 44°. Wilson and Nuttall both state that this bird remains in Pennsylvania 

 through the summer, but they were probably misinformed ; at least, there 

 is no recent evidence to this effect. Wilson also states that he shot speci- 

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