296 Bi 



Although early April i.s the usual time tor nest building to begin, we have found 

 nests as early as March 20, in 1890, and as late as May 24 in the same year. Mr. 

 Adickes, Assistant Curator of the State Museum, has taken one nest in June. About 

 two weeks time is sufficient to build the nest and deposit a full set of eggs, unless 

 interrupted by uaseasonable weather. If the nest is taken, the birds will at once 

 build another, and this will have its full complement of eggs in two weeks from 

 the time the first was destroyed. This action will be repeated several times if the 

 birds are continuallj' disturbed. The nests are comi)aratively easy to find by watch- 

 ing the birds while the building is in progress. 



Although the Pin(> Warbler is essentially a bird of the |)iue woods, yet in the fall 

 it is often found in mixed woods in large numbers, and in the winter, when food 

 is scarce, it sometimes collects about dwellings and farmyards and even in open 

 fie^ls. 



299. Dendroica palmarum palmarum iCtnel.). P.\l.m Wakbler. 



Description: Ads. — Crown chestnut; back oli\'p-giayi.sh brown, infli.stinctly streaked; rump 

 olive-greon; no wing-liar.s; tail black, the outer featliers with white patches on their inner vanes 

 at the tips; a yellow line over the eye; throat ami breast bright yellow; belly soiled whitish, tinged 

 with yellow; sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with cliestnut-rufous; under tail- 

 coverts yellow. Ad. in winter and Int. — Crown-cai) jiartly concealed by brownish tips to the 

 feathers, or sometimes wanting; line over the eye and eye-ring white; underparts .soiled whitish, 

 more or less tinged with yellow; brea.st streaked with duskv. L., 5.25; W., 2.64; T., 2.10; B. 

 from N., .32. {C\\ii\)., liirds of E. N. A.) 



Range. — Xorlh .\merica, principally in the Mississippi Valley during the migrations, breeding 

 mainly in British .Vmerica, and wintering in the West Indies. 



Range in North Carolina. —.So far, (jnly rccortled from the mountains and central part of the 

 State as a spring migrant. 



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Fio. 239. Palm W akhlkr. 



A single female taken at lihuityre May (>, 1008, seems referable here, as al.so 

 does one taken at Raleigh May 1, 1893. ( 'ooke states that migrants recorded by 

 Cairns as late as May 13, in Buncomlie Coimty. probably belong here, as this is 

 later in tlie season than tlie next fonn is sup])()sed to appear. 



300. Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea (Ridgw.). Yellow P.\lm Wak- 



BLEH. 



Dexrrijilion: Ad.i. — Crown chestnut: back brownish olive-green: rump olive-green; no white 

 wing-bars; secondaries sometimes tinged with chestnut; tail edged with olive-green, the outer 

 feathers with while .spots on their inner v.aiies near the tips; line over the eye and eye-ring yellow; 

 underparts entirely bright yellow: sides of the throat, the bre.ast, and sidfs streakeil with chestnut- 

 rufous. A<l. in trinlir and Ini. — Crown-cap partly concealed l)y the brownish tips to the feathers, 

 or sometimes wanting; line over the eve and eye-ring yellowish; entire underparts imiform yellow, 

 washed with ashv; the sides of the throat, tlie breast, and sides streaked with che.stnut-rufous 

 or dusky. L., 5."i:j; W., 2.G1; T., 2.10; B. from X., .31. 



