1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 857 
Washington “noted from March 24 (’89,. Figgins) to October 
25; it is a rare summer resident but swarms at times in the fall. 
Figgins found them in immense numbers on August 31, ’90, 
and shot 18” (Richmond). 
In Dorchester County, on April 6, ’93 (R. C. Watters), sev- 
eral were seen and one taken. In Worcester County, on June 
12,794, on the mainland, about a mile from Ocean City, I 
watched a male for about an hour in hopes of locating the nest 
which evidently was close at hand, but I did not find it. 
Dendroica palmarum (672). Palm Warbler. 
“Occasional (or casual) during migrations east of the Alle- 
ghanies” (Manual, 517). The following specimens have been 
taken near Washington, where it is “probably a regular, though 
rare, migrant.” April 22,’ 85, Roslyn, Alexandria County, Va.; 
April 29,’88, Roslyn, (C. W. Richmond); May 6 and May 11, 
’89, Laurel, Prince George County, Md. (R. Ridgway); May 
11, ’90, Riverdale, Prince George County, Md. (C. W. Rich- 
mond); May 11, ’81, Soldiers’ Home, District of Columbia 
(L. M. McCormick); September 18, ’87, Potomac Landing, 
Alexandria County, Wa.; September 22, 793, Four Mill Run, 
Alexandria County, Va. (J. E. Brown); October 4, ’91, Balls- 
ton, Alexandria County, Va. (Wm. Palmer, Auk, xi, 333). 
Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea (672a), Yellow Palm 
Warbler. 
A regular migrant; common, usually appearing in small 
flocks, though often single birds are seen, from April 4 (’98, 
Gray) to April 29 (91, Resler), and from September 12 (’95, 
Hoen) to October 22 (’93). At Washington “ from March 31 
(89) to April 29, and in the fall they were still common on 
October 19 (’90, Figgins)” (Richmond). “One year they were 
very common at Hagerstown in October, swarming everywhere, 
some even coming in at the windows” (Small). 
