]o;4 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



They arrived at Brookville, April 15, 1879 and 1882, May 3, 1883; 

 Knox County, April 19, 1881; Richmond, April 25, 1897; Lafayette, 

 April 27, 1892, April 29, 1893; Carroll County, April 29, 1885; Wa- 

 bash, April 27, 1894, April 30, 1892; Michigan City, April 24, 1884 

 At all these places, except as first mentioned, they are very rare. The 

 latest dates reported are. May 1, 1892 (Lafayette); May 1, 1897, May 

 3, 1883 (Brookville). In the Whitewater Valley they frequent the 

 wooded hillsides, where sugar maple is the prevailing timber. In such 

 places, usually high up among the branches of the sugar trees, I have 

 often found them. At times they nimbly flit from twig to twig 

 among the unfolding leaves; again they pursue the habits of a creeper, 

 reminding one of the Sycamore or Black and White Warbler, when 

 insect hunting along the larger limbs and about the trunks of trees. 

 Often they arrive before the leaves have burst the buds, and then 

 they play creeper to perfection. In spring, when they are with us, 

 they have a Sparrow-like song. This has been compared to the song 

 of the Chipping Sparrow, of a Junco, to the trill of the Swamp Spar- 

 row, and to the well-known chant of the Field Sparrow. At any 

 rate, it is a Sparrow's trill that comes to one from the highest boughs 

 of the maple woods, where no Sparrow ought to be. In fall they 

 only utter a chip as they pass southward, in September and October. 

 The following are records of their fall appearance: Lake County, 

 September 8, 1874; Warren County, September 15 and 16, 1897, 

 September 25, 1878; Brookville, October 12, 1885; Richmond, Octo- 

 ber 15, 1887. They eat some seeds, but principally insects, including 

 both those that infest pines and deciduous trees and those that fre- 

 quent the branches as well as the foliage. 



278. (672). Dendroica palmarum (GMEL.). 



Palm Warbler. 

 Synonym, BED-POLL WARBLER. 



Adult. Above, dull olive-brown; crown, chestnut, a yellow stripe 

 over the eye; back with indistinct streaks; rump, olive-green; wings, 

 edged with olive-gray, not barred; below, yellowish, bright yellow on 

 throat and under tail coverts; rest of under parts, washed with whitish 

 and streaked with brown; two outer tail feathers with large white 

 spots, sometimes a small one on the third. Immature. Chestnut of 

 crown, faint or wanting; line over eye and ring around eye, whitish; 

 below, dull buffy, slightly tinged with yellow and streaked with dusky; 

 lower tail coverts, yellow. 



Length, 4.50-5.50; wing, 2.85-2.65; tail, 2.05-2.45. 



