BIRDS OE* ITOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 615 



(?)Den*(Kca ignola Maynaed, Contributions to Science, i, Apr., 1889, 30, pi. 3, 

 fig. 1 (Homestead, St. Andi ews, Jamaica, Apr. 4, 1879 ; coll. Kingston, Jamaica^ 

 Museum). 



{'i)Dendroica igwiaGoTiY, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 123 (crit). 



DENDROICA PALMARUM HYPOCHRYSEA Ridgway. 



YELLOW PALM WARBLER, 



Simjlar to D-p-pahnaruvi, but decidedly larger, and with the under 

 parts entirely yellow, even in winter and immature plumages; sides of 

 chest more often streaked with chestnut, the streaks broader; color of 

 back, etc. , more olive, often inclining to olive-green. 



Toung {first plumage).— Ahoy & grayish brown, the pileum streaked 

 with dusky, the back and scapulars with T-shaped markings of the 

 same; lower rump and upper tail-coverts russet; wings and tail as in 

 adults, but tertials passing into russet along edges, the middle and 

 greater wing-coverts with small terminal spots of pale russet or rusty 

 buff; under parts whitish, tinged with yellow, everywhere, except on 

 chin, abdomen and under tail-coverts (the latter entirely yellow) 

 heavily streaked with dusk3^ 



Adult male.— L&ngt\i (skins), 118.1-124.5 (122.2); wing, 64.3-70.6 

 (67.1); tail, 51.8-56.9 (54.6); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 

 19.3-20.6 (20.1); middle toe, 11.9-12.9 (12.4).' 



Adidt female.— Ijmgth. (skins), 114.3-119.4 (116.6); wing, 62-65.8 

 (64.1); tail, 51.3-53.1 (52.3); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 

 19.3-20.3 (19.6); middle toe, 11.9-12.4 (12.2).' 



Atlantic coast district of United States and British Provinces; breed- 

 ing from eastern Maine (vicinity of Calais), New Brunswick, and Nova 

 Scotia northward, probably to Newfoundland, southern Labrador, and 

 province of Quebec;'' in winter. North Carolina (?), South Carolina (?), 

 northern and western Florida (Tarpon Springs, Punta Rassa, etc.). 

 Key West, Tortugas (Garden Key, March), and along Gulf coast to 

 Louisiana; accidental in Cuba and Jamaica (Kingston, 1 specimen, 

 December 20, 1890) and in northern Ohio (Oberlin, 1 specimen, April 

 16, 1892). Occasional in Bermudas in winter? * 



Sylvia petechia (not MotaeUla petechia LinniEus) Vibillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 

 32, part (Pennsylvania).— Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 19, pi. 28, fig. 4.— Bona- 

 PAETE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 198; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 

 83.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 364.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., ii, 1834, 259, 360, pis. 163, 164.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 307.— 

 McCuLLocH, ,Toum. Bost. Soc. N. H., iv, 1844, 406 (habits).— Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 80. 

 Sylvicola petechia Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 58, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 

 55, pi. 90.— (?) Jaedinb, Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermudas, Dec. 17, 1847).— 



' Nine specimens. ' Eight specimens. 



'I can find no record of its breeding in Newfoundland, Labrador, or Quebec, but 

 the species has been recorded from the first and last mentioned. (See synonymy.) 

 * Possibly the Bermuda records pertain to D. p. palmarum. 



