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parts interrupted by a whitish abdominal area ; breast streaked uniformly 

 across, the, streaks being linear, and dusky, with little if any tinge of chest- 

 nut ; lower eyelid whitish ; back dull olive-brown. Habitat. Mississippi 

 Valley (north to Great Slave Lake) and West Indies. Casual in certain 

 Atlantic States. 



Subsp. hypochrysea. — Wing, 2.50-2.80 (2.69) ; tail, 2.25 - 2.55 (2.43) ; 

 bill, from nostril, .28- .32 (.30) ; tarsus, .75 - .80 (.79). Yellow of lower 

 parts entirely continuous, and much brighter ; streaks confined mostly or 

 wholly, to sides of breast, broadly tear-shaped, wholly reddish-chestnut ; 

 lower eyelid bright yellow ; back greenish-olive. Habitat. Atlantic 

 States, from East Florida to Nova Scotia. 



Dendrceca palmarum. 

 Subspecies palmarum. 



Le Bimbele, ou la Fausse Linotte, Buffon, Ois., V, p. 330 (St. Domingo). 



Palm Warbler, Lath., Synop., II, pt. 2, p. 498. 



Motacilla palmarum, Gmel., S. N., I, 1788, p. 951. Dendrceca palmarum, 

 Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 488 ; et Auct. (part). 



Habitat. Mississippi Valley during migrations ; breeding in the interior 

 of British America, wintering in the Gulf States, from Texas to Western 

 and Southern Florida, and West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, 

 and Bahamas). Casual in certain Atlantic States (but not in New Eng- 

 land ]). Carlisle, Penn., April, May, and September ; District of Colum- 

 bia, April and October. (Specimens in Nat. Mus.) 



Adult Male in Spring (No. 915, Mus. R. R., .Mount Carmel, Illinois, 

 April 22, 1869. Brightest in the entire western series). Beneath yellowish- 

 white, tinged with yellow, the throat and crissum deepening into gam- 

 boge ; sides of the neck, sides, and entire breast, streaked with umber- 

 brown, tinged with rusty, the shafts of the feathers darker ; a distinct 

 superciliary stripe of clear yellow. Pileum uniform rich chestnut, darker 

 next the bill, where divided medially by a short and indistinct streak of 

 yellow. Upper parts in general olive-gray, deepening into yellowish 

 olive-green on the upper tail-coverts. Tail-feathers dusky, edged exter- 

 nally with pale olive-yellowish, the two outer pairs with their inner webs 

 broadly tipped with white. Wings dusky, the remiges edged like the tail- 

 feathers, with yellowish olive-green ; both rows of coverts tipped with 

 pale grayish-buff, forming rather distinct indications of two bands. Wing, 

 2.55 ; tail, 2.30 ; bill, from nostril, .30 ; tarsus, .80. 



Most other males in the series before me are rather duller than the one 

 described. A specimen from Carlisle, Penn. (No. 152, Mus. S. F. Baird, 

 April 26, 1845, — presumably a male), differs merely in the more indis- 

 tinct character of the streaks along the sides, those of the breast being 

 almost obsolete. One of the brightest males in the entire series is one in 

 Mr. Nelson's collection (No. 2,072, Waukegan, 111., April 12, 1876). This, 



