43° NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Dendroica palmarum palmarum (Gmelin) 

 Palm Warbler 



Plate 95 



Motacilla palmarum Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1789. 1:951 

 Dendroica palmarum palmarum A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. 

 p. 318. No. 672 



palmarum, Lat., of the palms, which it frequents in its winter home 



Description. Upper parts grayish olive brown, tail coverts yellowish, 

 the upper parts obscurely streaked with dusky; crown chestnut rufous; yel- 

 lowish line over the eye; narrow blackish line through the eye; 2 whitish 

 wing bars; outer tail feathers with white patches near the tip; throat and 

 upper breast light yellowish, also the under tail coverts; the rest of the 

 under parts grayish white more or less suffused with yellow ; distinctly but 

 not heavily streaked with blackish on the sides of the throat, on the sides 

 and across the breast. Female: Practically like the male. Young and 

 fall specimens: Similar to the adult, but the crown tipped with brown 

 and in young specimens sometimes scarcely showing the rufous at all. 



Length 5.43 inches; extent 8.4; wing 2.61; tail 2.1; bill .4; tarsus .77. 



Distribution. Breeds from southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, 

 southward to northern Minnesota. Winters from southern South Carolina, 

 Florida and the Bahamas to the West Indies and Yucatan. In New York 

 this warbler is purely a transient visitant, commoner in western New York 

 than in the coastal district, but appearing on Long Island and throughout 

 eastern New York sparingly during the migration season. Spring dates 

 vary from April 14 to April 27 for arrival and April 30 to May 12 for 

 departure to the north. Western New York arrivals vary from April 

 20 to 29; latest birds seen, May 12 to 14. In the fall this warbler reappears 

 in September between the 12th and the 23d. It is fairly common during 

 the first half of October, disappearing between the 3d and the 18th. It 

 must be accounted an uncommon species in the eastern part of the State 

 and only a fairly common migrant in western New York except in the fall 

 when it is sometimes common for two or three weeks after the first sharp 

 frost, but at that season it is never more than one-fourth as common as 

 the Myrtle warbler. 



