336 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



transient in most of our territory, arriving in fall two weeks 

 earlier than the Yellow Palm, and in spring recorded the last 

 week in April or the first week in May. There is, however, 

 good cause to believe that it has increased in the last twenty 

 years. 



Its identification in life is by no means difficult in spring, 

 and is a simple matter in fall. The Yellow Palm Warbler is 

 always uniformly yellow below. The Palm Warbler in spring 

 has the throat and breast bright yellow, the belly dirty white, 

 and abruptly yellow under tail-coverts. In fall only the under 

 tail-coverts are yellow, the bird otherwise being brownish 

 above, whitish below, with a whitish instead of yellow super- 

 ciliary stripe. 



Long Island. Uncommon transient, rare in spring, sometimes 

 common in fall; April 18 to May 23; September 7 to October 15 

 and not infrequently in recent years to the middle of December. 



ORIENT. Rare transient, March 20, 1919 (Mrs. Lowerre) 

 to May 23, 1910; September 20, 1906 to December 21, 1914; 

 frequently recorded in December. 



MASTIC. Uncommon fall transient. 



LONG BEACH. Regular fall transient, September 9, 1920 

 (Bicknell) to November 11, 1921 (Bicknell). 

 New York State. Reported at Ossining, April 29 and Sep- 

 tember 30 to October 12 (Fisher). Dr. F. M. Chapman saw an 

 exceedingly early individual September 2, 1896 on West 129th 

 Street, New York City. 



CENTRAL PARK. Rare spring, uncommon but regular fall 

 transient; April 22, 1909 (Anne A. Crolius), May 3, 1913 

 (Griscom), May 7, 1914 (Rogers), May 4, 1916 (Hix), April 

 30, 1920 (Griscom); September 4, 1911 (Hix) to October 13, 

 1912 (Hix). 



BRONX REGION. Rare spring, uncommon fall transient; 

 April 20, 1919 (C. L. Lewis) to May 11, 1919 (L. N. Nichols); 

 September 19, 1915 (L. N. Nichols) to October 14, 1916 (E. G. 

 Nichols) . 



New Jersey. Wherever there has been steady and long-con- 

 tinued observation in our area, the Palm Warbler is known to occur 

 rarely in spring, regularly in fall, at which season it is occasionally 

 common. 



