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about as bright as the male of 1 and with the distribution of 

 the yellow below restricted as in that form. Types, taken in 

 middle Fla. (Enterprise and Deep Creek, near Lake Asbby) 

 in March, 1901, now in my collection. 



n. Ground Warblers. Terracantor. 



Size, medium; bill, small; wings, medium, rounded, 

 folding to middle of tail, both coverts of which reach about 

 to its middle ; no wing bands ; tail spots, short, square *, top of 

 head, chestnut; yellow beneath ; ground nesting. Sexes, sim- 

 ilar. Ancestral origin. West Indies. Type, Motacilla pal- 

 marum Gmelin. 



1. EED-POLLED WARBLER, T. palmarum. 5.2.5; 

 brownish-olive above ; rump, yellow ; remaining lower por- 

 tions, white ; crown, Fig. 323. 



streaks on breast and 

 sides, chestnut, fig. 323. 

 Young, with little or no 

 chestnut on crown and 

 streaked with dusky be- 

 neath on a dull white 

 ground ; under tail cov- 

 erts, always yellow. 

 Breeds in the interior of 

 British America west of CC, H, n, 1. 1-3. 



Hudson Bay; winters from N. C. southward through Fla., 

 Bahamas, and many of the West Indies ; uncommon during 

 the fall migration north of N. C. east of tlie Alleghanies and 

 in 'N. E. Frequents open places, feeding much on the ground, 

 often in the vicinity of dwellings. Alarm, a sharp chirp ; 

 song, a feeble trill. In common with 2 has the habit of rais- 

 ing and lowering tail. 



2. YELLOW REDPOLL, T. hypochrysea. Larger than 

 1 and always wholly yellow beneath. Breeds from northern 

 N. E. north to the eastern shores of Hudson Bay ; winters 

 from N. C. to southern Fla. ; south in Sep. ; north in April. 

 Common ; rare west of the Alleghanies. 



