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A. F. Parks. Doctors Reed, Wright and Allen also report a specimen 

 from Ithaca, but aside from these migration dates for the interior every 

 other specimen of the Palm warbler which I have examined has been of 

 the subspecies palmarum and this is the species which I observe each 

 season during the migration both in the spring and fall; whereas, while 

 observing the migrations in the lower Hudson valley and in the vicinity 

 of New York City I have noticed nothing but the Yellow palm warbler 

 during both the spring and fall flights. In habits this subspecies does 

 not differ from the Palm warbler already described. 



Dendroica discolor (Vieillot) 

 Prairie Warbler 



Plate 95 



Sylvia discolor Vieillot. Ois. Amer. Sept. 1807 (1809?) 2:37, pi. 98 

 Sylvicola discolor DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 96, fig. no 

 Dendroica discolor A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 319. No. 673 

 discolor, Lat., variegated or parti-colored 



Description. Upper parts olive green, the hack spotted with rufous 

 or reddish chestnut; line over the eye, space beneath it, the 2 wing bars 

 and entire under parts yellow; a hlack line through the eye, another along the 

 side of the head and a crescentric patch on the side of the neck; sides 

 streaked with black; outer tail feathers largely white, the second and third 

 white near the tip. Female: Similar to the male but paler and less dis- 

 tinctly marked, the chestnut patch on the back sometimes very small or 

 wanting. Young in fall frequently lack the chestnut marks altogether 

 and general plumage less brightly and clearly marked but preserving the 

 same pattern in coloration. 



Length 4.75-4.90 inches; extent 7.15; wing 2.2; tail 1.95; bill .35; 

 tarsus .67. 



Distribution. Breeds from northeastern Nebraska, southern Ohio, 

 southwestern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and along the coast from 

 Massachusetts south to Florida, northern Mississippi and western Missouri; 

 locally to central Michigan, southern Ontario and New Hampshire, and 

 rarely in the Gulf States. Winters from central Florida to the Bahamas, 

 and West Indies. In New York this warbler is local in distribution, 



