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being olive-brown above and pale wood-brown below with 

 scarcely a tinge of yellow. The first nuptial plumage is grayer 

 and shows much wear. The adult winter plumage is much yel- 

 lower than the first winter, and resembles the male first winter. 

 The adult nuptial is the same as the previous plumage plus 

 marked wear. 



Dendroica palmarum (Gmel.). Palm Warbler 



The plumages and moults correspond to those of D. p. Jiypo- 

 cJwysca, described below, a relative paleness and lack of yellow 

 being found in all the plumages. If the limited prenuptial moult 

 were to extend over the whole body this subspecies could hardly 

 be told apart from hypochrysca, the new feathers being equally 

 yellow^ in both and the chestnut cap of the same tint. 



Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea (Ridgw.). Yellow 



Palm Warbler 



1. Natal Down. No specimen seen. 



2. JuvEXAL Plumage acquired by a complete postnatal moult. 



Above, dull sepia-brown, streaked with clove-brown. Wings and tail clove-brown, 

 edged chiefly with dull olive-green, the coverts and tertiaries with drab cin- 

 namon-tinged ; the outer two rectrices with terminal white blotches on the 

 inner webs ; no definite wing bands. Below, including sides of head, dull 

 white with dusky spots and streaks ; chin and crissum faintly tinged with 

 yellow. Orbital ring dull white ; transocular streak dusky. Bill and feet 

 pinkish buff, the feet darker and blacker than the bill when older. 



3. First Winter Plumage acquired by a partial postjuvenal 

 moult, in August in eastern Canada, wdiich involves the body 

 plumage and the wing coverts, but not the rest of the wings 

 nor the tail. 



Unlike the previous plumage. Above, yellowish sepia-brown, yellowish olive-green 

 on the rump and upper tail coverts, obscurely streaked with dull clove-brown, 

 the crown merely tinged with concealed chestnut. Wing coverts clove-brown 

 edged with olive-green and tipped with cinnamon not forming wing bands. 

 Below, canary-yellow brightest on the crissum, obscurely streaked on throat 

 and sides with dusky chestnut everywhere veiled by overlapping whitish edg- 

 ings. Superciliary line canary-yellow, orbital ring bufify white ; transocular 

 streak dusk v. 



