568 HISTORY OF THE 



This species, as its name indicates, prefers the pine trees, and 

 usually makes its summer home in the coniferous growths. I 

 have, however, on several occasions met with them during the 

 early summer months in the heavily timbered bottom lands, far 

 away from evergreen trees, and during migration and the winter 

 months they seem to be as much at home in the deciduous trees 

 as among the pines, often visiting the orchards and lowland 

 thickets. I found a few wintering in the cypress swamps in 

 eastern Arkansas, also in Florida, where they are quite common, 

 and usually in small flocks. They are very active birds, and, 

 in their search for insect life, cling like the creepers to the bark 

 of the trees, swing like the Titmouse from the ends of the 

 boughs, and are also at home on the ground. 



Their song is weak, a rather monotonous trill; their ordinary 

 call note a "Tsip," and they occasionally lisp a feeble "Che- 

 chee, che-chee, che-chee." 



Their nests are usually placed on the boughs of evergreen 

 trees, all the way from eight to sixty feet from the ground. 

 They are composed of soft strippings from bark, stems of plants, 

 pine needles, leaves, caterpillars' silk and downy vegetable mat- 

 ter, and lined with hairs and feathers. Eggs usually four, 

 . 70x.52; grayish to purplish white, speckled and spotted with 

 umber and madder brown and lilac gray, thickest and some- 

 times forming a ring around the larger end; in form, oval. 



Dendroica palmarum (GMEL.). 



PALM WARBLER. 

 PLATE XXXH. 



Migratory in the eastern part of Kansas; rather rare (not met 

 with in the western part of the State). Arrive the last of April 

 to first of May; return in September, and leave in October. 



B. 208. E. 113. C. 132. G. 51, 290. U. 872. 



HABITAT. Interior of North America; casually east of the 

 Alleghanies; north to Great Slave Lake; south to the Bahamas 

 and West Indies; migrating through the Mississippi Yalley, and 

 wintering in the Gulf States, from Texas into western Florida 

 and southward. 



