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Warbler. Its song which, in Florida, is often heard in the winter, is a 

 clear, sweet, even trill. 



672. Dendroica palmarum palmarum (GmeL). PALM WARBLER. 

 Ads. Crown chestnut; back olive grayish brown, indistinctly streaked; 

 rurnp olive-green; no wing-bars; tail black, the outer feathers with white 

 patches on their inner vanes at the tips; a yellow line over the eye; throat 

 and breast bright yellow; belly soiled whitish, tinged with yellow; sides of the 

 throat, the breast, and sides streaked with chestnut-rufous; under tail- 

 coverts yellow. Ad. in winter and I?n. Crown-cap partly concealed by 

 brownish tips to the feathers and sometimes wanting; line over the eye and 

 eye-ring white; underparts soiled whitish, more or less tinged with yellow; 

 breast streaked with dusky. L., 5'25; W., 2'64; T., 2'10; B. from N., '32. 



Range. Interior N. A. Breeds in Canadian zone from s. Mackenzie 

 (Ft. Simpson) and cen. Keewatin s. and se. to n. Minn.; winters from s. 

 Fla. and the Bahamas to the Greater Antilles and Yucatan ; occurs in migra- 

 tion on the Atlantic slope. 



Washington, rare T. V., Apl. 22-May 18; Sept. 18-Oct. 11. Ossining, 

 T. V., Apl. 29; Sept. 30-Oct. 12. Cambridge, uncommon T. V., in fall, 

 Sept. 15-Oct. 10. N. Ohio, tolerably common T. V., Apl. 24-May 20; 

 Sept. 10 to Oct. 16. Glen Ellyn, common T. V., Apl. 23-May 19; Sept. 4- 

 Oct. 18. SE. Minn., common T. V. Apl. 23- ; Sept. 17-Oct. 3. 



Nesting date, Ft. Resolution, Mack., June 18. 



This interior race of the Yellow Palm Warbler is occasionally met 

 with in the North Atlantic States, while in Florida it is much more 

 common than the eastern form. Sometimes the two birds may be seen 

 in the same flock, when the brighter colors of hypochrysea are usually 

 apparent. 



672a. D. p. hypochrysea Ridgw. YELLOW PALM WARBLER. Ads. 

 Crown, chestnut; back brownish olive-green; rump olive-green; no white 

 wing-bars; secondaries sometimes tinged with chestnut; tail edged with 

 olive-green, the outer feathers with white spots on their inner vanes near 

 the tips; line over the eye and eye-ring yellow; underparts entirely bright 

 yellow; sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with chestnut- 

 rufous. Ad. in winter and Im. Crown-cap partly concealed by the brownish 

 tips to the feathers and sometimes wanting; line over the eye and eye-ring 

 yellowish; entire underparts uniform yellow, washed with ashy; the sides of 

 the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with chestnut-rufous or dusky. 

 L., 5'43; W., 2'61; T., 2'10; B. from N., '31. 



Remarks. In any plumage this bird may be distinguished from the 

 preceding by its uniform yellow underparts. 



Range. Atlantic slope of N. A. Breeds in Canadian zone from Ont., n. 

 Que., and N. F., s. to s. N. S., N. B., and Maine; winters from La. to n. 

 Fla., casually to N. C. and Pa.; accidental in Ohio, Cuba, Jamaica arid 

 Bermuda. 



Washington, T. V., common, Mch. 31-Apl. 29; Sept. 4-Oct. 28. Ossining, 

 tolerably common T. V., Apl. 11-May 5; Sept. 20-Nov. 8. Cambridge, 

 usually common, sometimes abundant, T. V., Apl. 15-May 5; Oct. 1-15. 



Nest, of rather coarse grasses lined with finer grasses, on or near the 

 ground. Eogs, 4-5, white or buffy white, with some distinct and obscure 

 cinnamon- or olive-brown markings, chiefly at the larger end, '65 X "51. 

 Date, Dartmouth, N. S., May 26. 



This species is a renegade Dendroica. He has no liking for the 

 woods, and even trees in the open do not seem to attract him. His 

 tastes bring him to fields and roadsides, where he lives on or near the 



