250 DENDRGECA PALMARUM 



Dendroeca palmarum, Scl PZS. 1861, 71 (Jamaica). Albrecht, J.f.0. 1862, 193 (Jamaica). 



Blak. lois, v. 1863, n.McIlwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 86.- Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 



109 (South Carolina, in winter). Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 274. Sund. Oefv. K. 



Yet.-Akad. Forh. iii. 1869, 616. Coues, Pr. Phila.Acad. xxiii. 1871, 21. Coues,Key, 



1872, 104. Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 208 (Florida, wintering). Mayn. Guide, 1870, 



104. Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 187-2, 368. Mayn. B. Fla. 1873, 52. Coues, BNW. 



1874, 67. Gentry, Life-Hist. i. 1876, 132. Minot, B. N. Engl. 1877, 122. Merr. Tr. Conn. 



Acad. iv. 1877, 18. 

 Sylvia petechia, Wils. AO. vi. 1812, 19, pi. 28, f. 4. Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 198. 



Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 83.Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 364. And. OB. ii. 1834, 259, 360, pis. 



163, 164. Peab. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 307. McCulloch, Journ. Bost. Soc. iv. 1844, 406 



(habits ; makes it a Seiurus). Thomps. NH. Vermont, 1853, 80. 

 SylviCOla petechia, S. < E. FBA. ii. 1831, 215, pi. 41. Aud. Syn. 1839, 58. Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 



55,pl.90. #</, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 310. Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856,207. Willis, 



Smiths. Rep. for 1858, 1859, 282. Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri). 



Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114. 

 Phyllopneuste petechia, Boie, Isis, 1828, 321. 

 Mniolilta peteciiia, Gray, G. of B. i. 1848, 196 (= Wils. pi. 28, f. 4). 

 Sylvicola petechea, Pratten, Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 602. 



Sylvicola ruttcapilla, Bp. CGL. 1838, 22. Bp. CA. i. 1850, 307. (Not Mot. ruficapilla Gm.) 

 RMmamphus ruflcapillus, Gundl. J. f. 0. 1855, 473 (Cuba) ; 1861, 408 (same). 

 Bimhele ou Fausse Linote, Buff, "v.330". 



Palm Warbler, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 498, n. 133 (cites Bimbele of Buffon). 

 Fauvette bimbele, V. N. D. d'H. N. xi. 1817, 168. F. EM. ii. 18^3, 421. 

 Bee-fin bimble, D 'Orb. 1. c. 



Fauvette a tele rouge, Le Moine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 195. 

 Yellow lied -poll Warbler (not of Edw.), Palm Warbler, Authors. 



b. hypochrysea 

 Dendrteca palmarum hypochrysea, Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, 84. 



NOTE (1). The " Yellow Red-poll" of Edwards, pi. 256, f. 2, basis of M. petechia L., and 

 wrongly ascribed to Pennsylvania by the early authors, is the "West Indian conspecies of 

 D. cestiva, as any one may be satisfied by a glanco at the figure. Being ascribed to Penn- 

 sylvania, it was not unnaturally mistaken for the present species by some who never saw 

 Edwards's plate, and never read Brisson's elaborate description ; for the terms of the Lin- 

 mean diagnosis make it equally applicable to the present species. Wilson transferred the 

 name petechia, with Edwards's English name, to this species, and many have followed him, 

 the "Yellow Red-poll" of late and current vernacular being thus applied to thu present 

 species. The first tenable name ispalmarum Gm., based on the Bimbele of Buffon, which 

 became the "Palm Warbler" of Latham. Bonaparte called the bird ruficapilla in 1838 

 and 1850; but the original ruficapilla Gm., Lath., after Ficedula martinicana Brissou, was 

 another West Indian cestiva-likQ bird, which Latham and Pennant called the Bloody- 

 sided Warbler. My index-slips include many West Indian citations of "petechia", but I 

 am afraid to use them, as I cannot tell now whether they refer to true petechia or to pal- 

 marum, which latter occurs in the West Indies. 



NOTE (2). A recent paper by Mr. Ridgway, " On Geographical Variation in Dendroeca 

 palmarum ", < Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, pp. 81-87, separates the species iato two subspecies, 

 D. palmarum subs, palmarum and D. palmarum subs, hypochrysea. The range of the 

 former is given as follows : "Mississippi Valley during the 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). Cas- 

 ual in certain Atlantic States (but not in New England ?)." The new variety is assigned 

 as follows : " Atlantic States, from East Florida (in winter) to Nova Scotia. Breeding in 

 Maine and northward aud wintering in the South Atlantic States ; apparently not found 

 at all in the West Indies, nor in Southern and Western Florida! " It being scarcely or 

 not practicable to rearrange the synonymy of the species in conformity with the subspo- 

 cific distinction here drawn, I have left all the prior names and references under tho 

 original, and have formed no opinion respecting the merits of the case as presented by 

 Mr. Ridgway. 



HAB. Eastern Province of the United States and temperate British Amer- 

 ica. West only to the Lower Missouri and Texas. North to Labrador, Hud- 



