250 DENDRCECA PALMARUM 



DCDdroeca palmnrnm, Scl PZS. 1861, 71 (Jamaica,).— Atbrecht, J. f. 0. 1802, 193 (Jamaica). 



Blak. lAs, V. 1S63, C\.—Mallwr. Pr. Ess. lust. v. 1866, 86.— Ooues, Pr. Bost. Soo. xii. 1868, 



109 (South Carolina, in winter).— Cotjes, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 274.— Sund. Oefv. K. 



Vet.-Aknd. Forh. iii. 18C9, 016.- Oomm, Pr. Philii. Aoad. xxiii. 1871, 21 — Ocmes, Key, 



187J, lOi.— Allen, Ball. MCZ. ii. 1871, 208 (Florida, wintering).— Jfaj/Ti. Guide, 1870, 



104.— Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soo. xiv. 1872, 36ii.—Mayn. B. Fla. 1873, 52 — Ooues, BNW. 



1874, 61.— Gentry, Life-Hist. i. 1876, 132.— Jlinot, B. K Engl. 1877, 122.—Merr. Tr. Conn. 



Acad. iv. 1877, IS. 

 Sylvia petecbla, WUs. AO. vi. 1812, 19, pi. 28, f. 4.—Jlp. Journ. Phila. Acad. Iv. 1824, 198.— 



Bp. Ann. Lyo. N. Y. ii. 1826, Si.—lfutt. Man. i. 1832, 364.— Aud. OB. ii. 1834, 259, 360, pis. 



103, 164.— Fmb. Eep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 307.— McCuUoch, Joom. Bost. Soc. iv. 1844, 406 



(habits i makes it a Seiurus}.—Thomps. NH. Vermont, 1853, 80. 

 SylTlCOlapetecbla, S.c6Je.FBA.ii.l831, 215, j>\. 4L—Aud. Syn. 1839,58.— .^tMj.BA.iL 1841, 



55,pl.90.— Hoj/.Pr.Phila. Acad. 1853, 310.— Pufn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 207.— TTtliM, 



Smiths. Eep. for 1858, 1859, 282.— Hoy, Smiths. Eep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri).— 



Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114. 

 Pbyllopneuste petechia, Soie, Isis, 1B28, 321. 

 Mnlulllta petec Jia, Gray, G. of B. i. 1848, 196 (= Wils. pi. 28, f. 4). 

 SylTlcola peteches, Pratten, Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 18.">5, 602. 



SylTlsola ruflcapillft, Bp. C(JL. 1838, aa.—Bp. CA. i. 1850, 307. (Not Mot. ruficapaia Gm.) 

 B^ilmanipbus ruflcaplllus, Oundl. J. f. 0. 1855, 473 (Cuba) ; 1861, 408 (same). 

 Bimhele ou Fansse linote, Buff. "v. 330". 



Palm Warbler, Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 498, n. 133 (cites BimbeU of Button). 

 PauTette bimbel^ 7- N. D. d'H. N. xi. 1817, 168.— F. EM. IL 1823, 421. 

 Bec-lln bimble, DOrb. L c. 



Fanvette A tfcte rouge, Le Maine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 195. 

 leUow Bed-poll Warbler (not of Edw.), Palm Warbler, Authors. 



b. kypochrysea 



Dendroeca palmarum hypochryscn, Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, 84. 



If OTE (1).— The " Yellow Eed-poll " of Edwards, pi. 256, f. 2, basis of M. petechia L., and 

 wrongly ascribed to Pennsylvania by the early authors, is the "West Indian conspecies of 

 D. tBstiva, as any one may be satisfied by a glance at the figure. Being ascribed to Penn- 

 sylvania, it was not unnaturally mistaken for the present species by some who never saw 

 Edwards's plate, and never read Brisson's elaborate description ; for the terms of the Lin- 

 n£ean diagnosis make it equally applicable to the present species. Wilson transferred the 

 D&me petechia, wiih Edwards's English name, to this species, and many have followed him, 

 the "YeUow Eed-poll" of late and current vernacular being thus applied to the present 

 species. — The first tenable name iBjpalmaruW/ Gm., based on the Bimbelu of Buifon, which 

 became the " Palm "Warbler " of Latham. — Bonaparte called the bird ruficapilla in 1838 

 and 1850; but the original ruficapilla Gm., Lath., after Ficedtda martinicana Brissou, was 

 another West Indian cestiva-like bird, which Latham and Pennant called the Bloody- 

 sided Warbler.— My index-slips include many West Indian citations of " petechia", but I 

 am afraid to use them, as I cannot tell now wbether they refer to true petechia or to pal- 

 marum, which latter occurs in the West Indies. 



Note (2). — A recent paper by Mr. Itidgway, " On Geographical Variation in Bendroeca 

 pahnarum ", < Bull. Nutt. Club, i. 1876, pp. 81-87, separates the species iuto two subspecies, 

 B. palmarum subs, palmarum and B. palmarum subs, hypochrysea. The range of the 

 former is given as follows : — " Miseissiiipi Valley during the migrations; breeding in the 

 interior of British America, wintering in the Gulf States, from Texas to Western and 

 Southern Florida, and West Indies (Cuba, .Tamaica, Santo Domingo, and Bahamas). Css- 

 ual in certain Atlantic Stales (but not in New England ?)." The new variety is assigned 

 as follows: — '' Atlantic States, from East Florida (in winter) to Nova Scotia. Breeding in 

 Maine and nurthward and wintering in the South Atlantic States ; apparently not found 

 at all In the West Indies, nor in Southern and Western Florida ! " It being scarcely or 

 not practicable to rearrange the synonymy of the species in conformity with the subspe- 

 cific distinction hero drawn, I have left all the prior names and references under tho 

 original, and have formed no opinion respecting the merits of the case as presented by 

 Mr. Eidgway. 



Hab. — Eastern Province of the United States and temperate British Amer- 

 ica. West only to the Lower Missouri and Texas. North to Labrador, Hud- 



