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tion furnished of the female in winter plumage. The only points of 

 essential difference, compared with the description given above, are, 

 " above bluish-ash, the feathers of the crown with a narrow, those of the 

 middle of the back with a broad, streak of dark brown. A narrow semi- 

 circular ring of black surrounds the eye, touching its anterior part ; eye- 

 lids white. Length, 5.50; wing, 2.75; tail, 2.50; tarsus, 80." 



The place of breeding, nest, and eggs of this bird remain to be dis- 

 covered. 



Dendrcega palmaeum (Gm.) Bd. 



var. PALMAEUM (Ridgway.) 



"^eUow JRed-poll Warbler. 



Sylvia petechia, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Suit., 1838, 163. 



Sylvicola ruficapilla, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 407 ; Proc. Pliilad. Acad. Nat. Sci, vi, 

 1853, 395. 



Dendroica palmarvm, Baird, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 289. — Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 

 for 1860, 364 ; Reprint, 1861, 6. 



Dendrwca palmarum, Whbaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 564; Re- 

 print, 1875, 4.— LangdiiN, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 6. 



Dendrceoa palmarum, Yax. palmarum, Langdon, Revised List, Journ. Cin. See. Nat. Hist., 

 i, 1879, 173 ; Reprint, 6. 



Motadlla palmarum, Gmklin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 95. 



Sylvia yeiechia, Wilson, Am, Orn., vi, 1812, 19. 



Sylmeola ruficapilla, Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 22. 



DendrcEca palmarum, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1861, 71. 



Dendroeca palmarum, Yax. palmarum, Eidgway, Ball. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 84. 



In spring : brownish-olive, rump and upper tail coverts brighter yellowish-olive, back 

 obsoletely streaked with dusky, crown chestnut; superciliary line and entire under parts 

 rich yeilow, breast and sides with reddish-brown streaks, somewhat as in the Summer 

 Warbler; a dusky loral line running through the eye; no white wing-bars, the wing cov- 

 erts and inner quills being edged with yellowish-brown ; tail spots at very end of inner 

 webs of two outer pairs of tail feathers only, and out squarely off^a. peculiarity distin- 

 guishing the species in any plumage. Female not particularly different from the male. 

 Young, an obscure looking species, brownish above like a young Yellow-rump, but 

 upper tail coverts yellowish-olive, and under tail coverts apt to show quite bright yellow 

 in contrast with the dingy yellowish- white or brownish- white of other under parts; 

 crown generally showing chestnut traces ; but in any plumage, kuown by absence of 

 white WLDg-bars and peculiarity of tail spots. Length 5^, wing 2-1, tail 2J. 



Very common, sometimes irregular, spring and fall migrant. Ar- 

 rives with or shortly after the Yellow-rump in spring and fall; usually 

 departs sooner in the fall. More of them are seen in spring than in 

 fall. They frequent the borders of streams, weedy fields, and the edges 

 of thickets, and are frequerltly in company with Yellow-rum r-s, Blue- 

 birds, and Sparrows. They are decidedly terrestrial in their habits, and 

 have the habit, in common with the members of the next genus, of tip- 



