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Dendroeca maculosa, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, p. 

 29 (Puerto Plata, specimen). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 

 (listed). 



Dendroica maculosa, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. IIS (Hispan- 

 iola).— Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 365 

 (Sainana, specimen). 



Winter visitant from North America; apparently rare. 



The only records for the magnolia warbler are of one collected 

 by Cory at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, December 14, 1882, 

 one reported by Verrill as taken at Samana, Dominican Republic, 

 and one shot by Perrygo at Cerca-la-Source, Dominican Republic, 

 March 28, 1929. The species is reported rarely from Porto Rico 

 and Cuba. 



The magnolia warbler, a typical tree-haunting wood warbler in 

 size and habits, is easily told from its relatives by its black tail with 

 a sharply defined white band across the center of its underside, as 

 in other species the white markings in the tail are at the tip. The 

 adult male has the crown bluish gray, cheeks and forehead black 

 with a white line over the eye; back black with the feathers edged 

 with greenish; a large patch of white on the wing coverts; rump 

 yellow ; under surface yellow streaked with black ; under tail coverts 

 white. The immature bird is olive green above with nearly con- 

 cealed black spots, yellow rump, and two narrow wing bars. The 

 tail is as in the adult. 



DENDROICA DISCOLOR DISCOLOR (Vieillot) 

 PRAIRIE WARBLER, PETIT CHIT 



Sylvia discolor Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807 (1809?), p. 37, pi. 

 98. (Eastern United States or Greater Antilles). 



Sylvicola discolor, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 91 (Haiti). 



Dendroeca discolor, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 (winter) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, p. 31 (winter). — Tippenhatjer, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed). 



Dendroica discolor, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 118 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith., ser., vol. 1, 

 1896, p. 11 (Dominican Republic). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 61, 1909, p. 365 (common).— Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 420 (Monte Cristi, Sosua, Rio San Juan, specimens). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. 

 Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141 ; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 224 (Haiti, specimen).— 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 513 (Haiti, Gonave, 

 Tortue).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 323 (Haina, 

 San Juan, specimens). 



Winter visitant from North America; common. 

 The prairie warbler is found mainly in the coastal plain and lower 

 hills and does not appear to go into the high, mountainous interior 



