Second Series. 



Vol. II. No. i. 



First Quarter, 1906 



A MAGAZINE OF NORTH 

 Published Quarterly at Floral Park, N. Y. 

 Published February soth 



AMEKICAN OENI T H O L O G Y 



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 John Lewis Child s. Editor 



Plate I, Fig. L Eggs of the Yellow Palm Warbler 



NOTES ON THE YELLOW PALM WARBLER 



(Dendroica palmarum hvpochrvsea) 



B\ O. W. Knighi 



THE winter range of this species is chiefly included in the territory ex- 

 tending from Louisiana to northern Florida and eastern North Caro- 

 lina. The spring migration begins in season so that the first individuals 

 appear near Washington, D. C, in early April, and in Massachusetts about 

 April 15, while by early May the tide of migration has passed onward. The 

 first individuals are seen in southern Maine at dates between April 15 and 

 20, while the average date of their first appearance on their breeding 

 grounds near Bangor is April 24, the earliest date seen April 23 and latest 

 date of arrival May 4. By the first to the second week of May migration is 

 practically over in the United States, a majority having passed northward 

 while a fair share of the migrating hosts have settled in their summer homes 

 in suitable parts of the state of Maine. As an exceptionally late date for 

 migration Capt. H. L. Spinney tells me he saw ten individuals of this species 

 at Seguin Island June 7, 1897. They have no chance to nest on this island. 

 Though one of the commonest and best known of the Warblers along 

 the Atlantic seaboard during the migration, the breeding range of this spec- 

 ies was for a long time vaguely known, and eggs of this species are and will 

 continue to be especial desiderata in collections. Though vague hints that 

 this bird had been found nesting in Maine have appeared in the years gone 

 by, the first reallv authentic record of the actual taking of a set of their 



