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however, is scarcely different from the one described, the only obvious dif- 

 ference being the somewhat brighter yellow on the breast, and the greater 

 amount of chestnut in the streaks of the side of the breast. The palest 

 male is also a Waukegan specimen (No. 2,073, Mus., E. W. Nelson, April 

 28, 1876), which has the posterior half of the superciliary stripe white 

 and the whole breast whitish, the pure yellow being thus restricted to the 

 throat and crissum. 



Adult Female in Spring (No. 2,786 Mus. R. R., Mt. Carmel, 111., Spring ; 

 S. Turner). Similar to the male, as described above, but pileum mixed 

 chestnut and dark umber-brown, distinctly streaked with dusky. Wing, 

 2.35 ; tail, 2.05 ; bill, from nostril, .28 ; tarsus, .71. 



A female in my collection, from Calumet, 111. (May 12, 1875), is con- 

 siderably paler and duller, the lower parts being whitish tinged with yel- 

 low on the throat and jugulum, the crissum only continuous yellow ; even 

 the superciliary stripe is white from the eye backward. The pileum is 

 grayish-olive, like the back, tinged in one or two places with chestnut, 

 and very indistinctly streaked. The streaks on the sides are almost ob- 

 solete, but across the jugulum they are quite well defined. 



Adult (both sexes) in Winter. Lower parts dirty whitish, the breast and 

 sides with narrow streaks of grayish brown ; throat and superciliary stripe 

 loholly dirty whitish; yellow entirely confined to the crissum, except a tinge 

 on the abdomen, and along the edge of the wing in some specimens ; 

 crown grayish-umber, with but little, if any, tinge of chestnut, and dis- 

 tinctly streaked with dusky. 



This plumage is that of all late fall and winter specimens, whether from 

 far north or the West Indies. I have seen no specimens from the latter 

 region in the spring plumage. 



Subspecies hypochrysea. 



Dendraica palmarum, Auct., in part. 



Dendrceca palmarum hypochrysea, Ridgway. 



Habitat. Atlantic States, from East Florida (in winter) to Nova Scotia. 

 Breeding in Maine and northward, and wintering in the South Atlantic 

 States ; apparently not found at all in West Indies, nor in Southern or 

 Western Florida ! 



Adult Male in Spring (No. 2,164, Mus. R. R., Cambridge, Mass. ; W. 

 Brewster). Entire lower parts, and a conspicuous superciliary stripe, 

 bright yellow, entirely continuous and uniform beneath ; entire sides marked 

 with broad streaks of deep chestnut, these most distinct on the sides of 

 the breast. Auriculars mixed olive and chestnut (the latter prevailing), 

 somewhat darker immediately behind the eye ; lore with an indistinct 

 dusky streak. Entire pileum rich chestnut, becoming darker next the 

 bill, where divided medially by a short and rather indistinct yellow streak. 

 Rest of the upper parts olive, tinged with brown on the back, and bright- 



