534 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



the first half of October they slowly wend their way to a 

 warmer clime." 



672a. Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea Ridgw. Yellow 

 Palm Warbler; Yellow Red Poll Warbler; Twitch-tail 

 Warbler. 



Plumage of adult male : crown chestnut ; back brownish olive green ; 

 rump brighter, more olive green ; wings and tail clove brown, the feathers 

 edged rather narrowly on outer edges with olive green ; outer tail feathers 

 with white spots on inner webs near tips ; line over eye and eye ring yellow ; 

 below yellow, streaked with chestnut on the sides of the throat, the breast 

 and the sides. Plumage of adult female : in general scarcely distinguishable 

 from that of the male ; the female has slightly less chestnut on the crown, 

 averages a little browner and with less yellow but unless compared in a 

 large series is practically indistinguishable from the male. Immature 

 plumage : sepia brown or yellowish sepia brown above ; crown without any 

 chestnut or merely tinged with chestnut; rather obscurely streaked or 

 washed below on the throat, breast and sides with dusky ; in general very 

 similar otherwise to the adults. Natal down, mouse color with a sepia tint. 

 Wing 2.70; tail 2.05. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding locally from northern and 

 eastern Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, northward east of Hudson 

 Bay, the exact limit of range north unknown ; migrating south through the 

 eastern states and wintering from North Carolina to Louisiana and southern 

 Florida. 



County Records. — Androscoggin common migrant, (Johnson). Aroostook; 

 locally common summer resident, breeding in bogs at Sherman, Crystal, 

 Monticello, and in the Woolastook Valley, (Knight). Cumberland; common 

 migrant, (Mead). Franklin; rare migrant, (Richards) ; seen only in fall, 

 (Sweet). Hancock; very common migrant, locally found as a common 

 summer resident on the bogs, (Knight). Kennebec ; rare migrant, (Powers). 

 Knox; transient, (Norton). Oxford; fairly common migrant, (Johnson). 

 Penobscot; very common migrant, locally common summer resident, 

 (Knight). Piscataquis ; common migrant, (Knight); have found it quite 

 common in a bog near Dover and am reasonably certain it breeds, (Ritchie). 

 Sagadahoc; (Spratt). Somerset; common migrant, rare summer resident, 

 (Morrell) ; breeding at Rowe Pond, early July, 1900, (Knight). Waldo; 

 migrant and summer resident, (Knight). Washington; very abundant 

 summer resident, (Boardman) ; common summer resident in the south- 

 western sections on the various bogs and barrens, (Knight). York; 

 vernal migrant, (Adams). 



An account of my observation of this species which appeared 

 in the Warbler, Vol. 2, No. 1, is reproduced here as giving all 



