PALM WARBLER. 
113 
^already stated, by Buffon, and from him subse- 
"f it ' Vr ' ters appear to have copied what they relate 
v er * ^he bird which he described must have been a 
y°ung- specimen, as its colours are very dull, much 
so than the one figured and described by Vieillot, 
Ha^ 0SeS ’ !. hou f h erroneously, Buffon’s specimen 
tain]' 1 '® been a female. Even Vieillot’s, which is cer- 
Col 0 ' V 0,lr species in its winter dress, is much duller in 
ac,^ 1 ' ^an those we received from Florida; and these 
£ far less brilliant than ours, as it appears for a 
J 6p bays i n t tic spring in Pennsylvania and New 
th tt ;y> and is found throughout summer in Maine; 
Vaulting . the several gradations of change which 
v' undergoes. 
realists cannot be too circumspect in receiving 
'Uv t ’ l,s even from the most respectable sources, their 
lit. Senses affording the only authentic testimony to 
I. P , ^ on. From information derived from Mi- 
ls, 
eal e , 
. who had no opportunity for making compa- 
,Ve erroneously stated, (supra, p. 108.) that 
liirj !a . Cel 'ita, Say, was one of the most common 
0r atlo , 111 Florida during winter, keeping among the 
to n, s „ e trees, &c All this statement had reference 
soon as the specimens 
celata, were shewn to 
® s te t ,r ° r was immediately perceived. We therefore 
to “ees, &c, All tms st; 
Vo,. ®,P re s e nt s]»ecies; and as 
Us ) .pbt by Mr Peale as Sylvia 
G ft 1’ r r\ H " . 1 
h 
\t 
pould, 
ris e to correct this mistake, which would be other- 
,°t more consequence, inasmuch as no one else 
it j s j,° r a long time, detect it. This species resembles. 
Hip ,e r ... i range must remain limited 
to tl ' lle > S. celata, (whose 
* lle Rri/.l,.. 
S, 
Tufj . Rocky Mountains,) and perhaps still more 
^l^ ^Pilla, Wilson, but it is not of the same sub- 
^ >a '-nis, and it may readily be known by the 
\\q s lmts of the tail feathers. 
^btid- 6 ? ^e S' 611118 Sylvia, containing upwards of two 
''’tgdi'a and fifty species, shall have been properly 
Set,,.. .> it will lie 
*>al 
A >i can 
V °t-. IV. 
shall have been properly 
will be found practicable to divide it into 
more sections, subgenera, and even perhaps 
This bird, along with many other North 
species, will constitute a highly natural 
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