216 YELLOW PALM WARBLER 



found it abundant in spring on hillsides covered with a low growth 

 of Vaccinium. It is distinctly a bird of the ground and the low growth, 

 and I have never seen it perch twenty feet above the ground." {Alli- 

 son, MS.) 



Northward through the Mississippi Valley this species is a com- 

 mon migrant, but it nests so much farther north than the Yellow 

 Palm that we know but little of its habits during the summer. 



In September and October the Palm Warbler occurs as a rare 

 but regular migrant in the Atlantic States. Brewster records an in- 

 dividual seen by Hoffman at Belmont, Mass., December 6, 1902. 



Song. — "The trill remains as a prominent feature, but the note 

 is no longer a true chip. Better tsee tsee tsee tsee, with a distinct 

 swell. Each syllable should be given a half double utterance except at 

 the middle of the swell, where the greater effort seems to completely 

 coalesce the half double quality into one distinct syllable. There is a 

 little similarity to the song of Myrtle Warbler, but lacking the liquid 

 quality of that species." (Jones.) 



Nesting Site. — A nest containing five young was found by Kenni- 

 cott at Fort Resolution, June 18, on the ground, in a hummock, at the 

 foot of a small spruce (B. B. & R. 1, 275). 



Eggs. — "Yellowish or creamy white, spotted chiefly around the 

 larger end with brown and purple." (Bailey, Birds W. U. S.) 



Yellow Palm Warbler 



DENDROICA PALMARUM HYPOCHRYSEA Ridgw. 



SubspecMc Characters. — Similar to Dendroica palmarum palmarum but 

 larger, upperparts more olive, underparts entirely yellow, the streaks browner, 

 line over eye yellow at all seasons. In winter the yellow below is more or 

 less veiled with whitish but I have seen few specimens that were not sufficiently 

 unlike D. p. palmarum to be distinguished in life. Length (skin), 4.80; wing, 

 2.70; tail, 2.10; bill, .40. 



Nestling. — Above olive-brown strongly streaked with black; below whitish 

 strongly and evenly streaked with black, except on lower abdomen; median 

 and greater wing-coverts edged with brownish and tipped with buffy forming 

 more conspicuous bars than in the young in Fall plumage. 

 General Distribution. — Eastern North America. 

 Summer Range. — From Bangor, Maine, and Nova Scotia north- 

 ward to Labrador, east of Hudson Bay. 



Winter Range. — From North Carolina south to the Florida Keys, 

 west to Louisiana, rare in the West Indies. 



The Bird and its Haunts. — So far as habits are concerned this 

 bird agrees with its Mississippi Valley representative, Dendroica p. 

 palmarum. It is apparently less abundant than that form which, 



