PALM WARBLER. 27a 
to breed. From the scarcity of the species, its passage has 
hitherto been unobserved ; and it is now, for the first time, 
introduced as a bird of the United States. Authors who have 
heretofore made mention of it, represent it as a permanent resi- 
dent of St Domingo, and other islands of the West Indies, and 
even describe its nest and habits, as observed there. 
In the United States, it is found during winter in Florida, 
where it is, at that season, one of the most common birds. In 
the month of November, they are very abundant in the neigh- 
bourhood of St Augustine, in East Florida, even in the town, 
and in other parts of the territory wherever the orange tree is 
cultivated, being rare elsewhere. They are found in great 
numbers in the orange groves near Charleston, South Caro- 
lina, at the same season, and have also been observed at Key 
West and the Tortugas, in the middle of February, and at 
Key Vacas in the middle of March. Their manners are 
sprightly, and a jerking of the tail, like the pewee, charac- 
terises them at first sight from a distance. The only note we 
have heard them utter is a simple chirp, very much like that 
of the black and yellow warbler, Sylvia maculosa (Magnolia 
of Wilson). ‘They are fond of keeping among the thick foliage 
of the orange trees. A few are observed every year in spring 
on the borders of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, as well 
as in the central parts of New Jersey, on their passage to 
the north. They breed in Maine, and other parts of New 
England, where they are common during summer, and per- 
haps also in Canada, though probably not extending to the 
inhospitable climates of Hudson’s Bay, whose natural produc- 
tions are so well known. 
The bird represented in the plate was shot near Borden- 
town, on the 17th of April, in the morning. It was a fine 
adult male, in the gayer plumage of the breeding season, in 
which it is now for the first time figured, and a description is 
subjoined. 
Length, five inches and a quarter; extent, more than eight 
inches ; bill, five-eighths of an inch long, very slender, straight, 
