168 THE YELLOW PALM WARBLER. 
to bush or searching quietly among the weeds. It usually lingers well into 
May and appears again, but less frequently, rather late in the fall. The 
bird is somewhat variable in appearance and often quite puzzling at some dis- 
tance. Now a casual glance notes it for a sparrow, and again it challenges at- 
tention as some mysterious unknown. If only one catches the nervous flirt 
of the tail the case is out of Chancery. 
Several writers on birds pour contempt on the Palm Warbler’s song and 
many profess ignorance of it altogether. It is not a very elaborate affair but 
I have heard it delivered with a sprightliness and energy which called me 
half way across a pasture. One bird in particular lured me to the edge of 
a wood lot with a spirited rollicking chatter which made me suspect Junco in 
an ecstacy. Its ordinary song consists of a succession of twinned notes in 
a swell. On this point Lynds Jones says, “Each syllable should be given 
a half double utterance except at the middle of the swell, where the greater 
effort seems to coalesce the half double quality into one distinct syllable.” 
At other times I have noticed a mere sustained sibilation, wissa, wissa, wissa, 
qwissa, wissa, without inflectional change. Besides this he has the inevitable 
Dendroican chip, but it is scarcely distinctive enough to be recognizable when 
a dozen other species are flying. 
No. 75. 
YELLOW PALM WARBLER: 
A. O. U. No. 672a. Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea Ridgw. 
Synonyms.—YELLOW-BELLIED ReED-PoLL WARBLER; YELLOW RED-POLL 
WARBLER. 
Description.—Similar to preceding species, but “larger and much more 
brightly colored, with entire lower parts bright yellow in all stages (excepting 
nestling plumage); upper parts richer, or less grayish olive than im true 
palmarum” (Ridgway ). 
Recognition Marks.—Like D. palmarwm; brighter yellow below. 
Nest and eggs not peculiar. Not known to breed in Ohio. 
General Range.—Atlantic States north to Hudson Bay. Breeds from eastern 
Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia northward; winters in the South Atlantic 
and Gulf States. 
Range in Ohio.—Casual during migrations. 
THE Atlantic coastal wave of migrating Yellow Red-polls occasionally 
spills over into our state. Not every yellow Palm Warbler is to be suspected, 
for there is great individual variation among the species, and we are near the 
