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Haunts and habits. The Palm warbler frequents more open situations 

 than most of the dendroicas, frequently occurring along the banks of streams 

 where there is very little shrubbery, or even about the banks of ponds 

 and swamps where there is no cover at all. Sometimes it is noticed in 

 company with other Dendroicas feeding among the foliage, but it is unusual 

 to notice it far from the edges of swamps and streams. It is comparatively 

 a low-feeding species, flying about near the ground or in the low shrubbery, 

 continually wagging its tail more after the manner of pipits, however, 

 than like the water thrushes. The voice is described by Jones as a "trill, 

 consisting of the syllables tsee four times repeated, uttered with a distinct 

 swell." 



Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea (Ridgway) 

 Yellow Palm Warbler 



Plate 95 



Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea Ridgway. Bui. Nuttall Om. Club- 



Nov. 1876. 1:85 

 Sylvicola ruficapilla DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt. 2, p. 89, fig. 133 

 Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. 



p. 318. No. 672a 



hypochrysea, Gr., meaning golden below 



Description. Similar to the Palm warbler but larger, the upper parts 

 more olive and the under parts entirely yellow, the breast streaks reddish 

 brown or rufous, the line over the eye yellow at all seasons. 



Wing 2.7 inches; tail 2.2; bill .4. 



Distribution. This subspecies breeds from Ontario, northern Quebec 

 and Newfoundland to southern Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and northern 

 Maine; winters from Carolina and casually as far north as Pennsylvania 

 to Florida and Louisiana. In New York it is a transient visitant in the 

 coastal district, arriving from the south from the 14th to the 28th of April, 

 average date April i8, and usually passing northward by the 12th of May. 

 It is a fairly common transient in the coastal district, largely displacing 

 there the Palm warbler which is more characteristic of the interior of New 

 York. Specimens of the Yellow palm warbler have been taken in migra- 

 tion also at Syracuse, according to A. W. Perrior, and near Albany by 



