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Adidt female.— Length (skins), ll-i.3-123.2 (117.6); wing, 59.9- 

 62.7 (60.7); tail, 47.7-51.6(49); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.2 (10); tarsus, 

 19-19.8 (19.6); middle toe, 11.4-12.7 (11.9).^ 



Eastern North America, chiefly west of the Alleghenies; breeding 

 in the interior of British America (Fort Resolution and Fort Simp- 

 son, province of Mackenzie); in winter, southern Florida, Bahamas, 

 Greater Antilles (Cuba, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman 

 Brae, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico), Cozumel Island, Yucatan (Progreso) 

 and Swan Island, and island of Old Providence, Caribbean Sea; occa- 

 sional, during migration, in Atlantic States (numerous records), and 

 at eastern base of Rocky Mountains (Denver, Colorado, one specimen, 

 June 20). 



[Motacilla] palmarum Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, pt. ii, 1788, 951 (Santo Domingo; 

 based on Le Blmbele ou fausse Linotie Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v. 330, and 

 Palm Warbler Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. 2, 498). 

 MoiadUa palmarum Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 418. 

 [Sylvia] palmarum Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 544. 



Sylvia palmarum Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 21, pi. 73; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xi, 1817, 168; Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 431.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 X, 1817, 607.— BoNAPAKTE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1825, 29 (Florida); 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 78; Am. Orn., ii, 1828, 12, pi. 10, fig. 2.— D'Oebigny, 

 in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 61, pi. 8. 

 Sylvicola palmarum Jabdine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 373.— Richardson, 

 Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837 )', 172.— Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. ,1857, 231 

 (Santo Domingo).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 110 (Bahamas, 

 winter; habits); xi, 1867, 91 (Santo Domingo).— Albrecht, Journ., fiirOrn., 

 1861, 53 (Bahamas). 

 Mlniotilta'] palmarum Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [Mniotitta'] palmarum Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3477. 

 Dendroica palmarum Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 288, part (Ohio, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Red R. Settlement, and Florida) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 208, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 207, part (Fort Simpson; Fort 

 Resolution; Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 1872, 

 415 (do.); Repert. Fi'sico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 234; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 vii, 1878, 183 (Porto Rico). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 273, part.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 564 

 (CozumelL, Yucatan); x, 1888, 575 (Swan I., Caribbean Sea); Orn. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 154. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 672. — 

 ■ , Allen,. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 258 (Massachusetts records; 4 

 specs).— Cory, Auk. iii, 1886, 39 (West Indian references); iv, 1887, 180 

 (Old Providence I., Caribbean Sea); vi, 1889, 31 (Little Cayman and Cay- 

 man Brae); ix, 1892, 49 (Watlings I., Bahamas); Birds W. I., 1889, 53; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 118 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Biminis, Berry Islands., Eleu- 

 thera. New Providence, Andros, San Salvador, Exuma Keys, Concepcion 

 Watlings I., Rum Cay, Fortune I., Green Cay, North Caicos, Grand Caicos, 

 East Caicos, and Great Inagua, Bahamas; Cuba; Isle of Pines; Grand Cay 

 man; Jamaica; Haiti; Porto Rico). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888 

 254 (Mississippi Valley dates, etc.); Bull. 44, Colo. Agr. Coll., 1898, 168 (Den 

 ver, Colorado, 1 spec, June 20, 1891).— Dutcher, Auk., v, 1888, 182 (Fire I. 

 New York, Sept. 28, 1 spec.).— Dwight, Auk. v, 1888, 324 (Montauk Point, 



' Eight specimens. 



