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parts interrupted by a whitish abdominal area ; breast streaked uniformly 
across, the, streaks being linear, and dusky, with little if any tinge of chest- 
nut ; lower eyelid whitish ; back dull olive-brown. Habitat, Mississippi 
Valley (north to Great Slave Lake) and West Indies. Casual in certain 
Atlantic States. 
Subsp. hypochrysea. — Wing, 2.50 - 2.80 (2.69) ; tail, 2.25 - 2.55 (2.43) ; 
bill, from nostril, .28- .32 (.30) ; tarsus, .75- .80 (.79). Yellow of lower 
parts entirely continuous, and much brighter ; streaks confined mostly or 
wholly, to sides of breast, broadly tear-shaped, wholly reddish-chestnut ; 
lower eyelid bright yellow ; back greenish-olive. Habitat. Atlantic 
States, from East Florida to Nova Scotia. 
Dendroeca palmarum. 
Subspecies palmarum. 
Le Bimbele, ou la Fausse Linotte, Buffon, Ois., V, p. 330 (St. Domingo). 
Palm Warbler, Lath., Synop., II, pt. 2, p. 498. 
Motacilla palmarum, Gmel., S. N., I, 1788, p. 951. Dendrceca palmarum, 
Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 488 ; et Auct. (part). 
Habitat. Mississippi Valley during migrations ; breeding in the interior 
of British America, wintering in the Gulf States, from Texas to Western 
and Southern Florida, and West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, 
and Bahamas). Casual in certain Atlantic States (but not in New Eng- 
land ?). Carlisle, Penn., April, May, and September ; District of Colum- 
bia, April and October. (Specimens in Nat. Mus.) 
Adult Male in Spring (No. 915, Mus. E,. R., Mount Carmel, Illinois, 
April 22, 1869. Brightest in the entire western series). Beneath yellowish- 
white, tinged with yellow, the throat and crissum deepening into gam- 
boge ; sides of the neck, sides, and entire breast, streaked with umber- 
brown, tinged with rusty, the shafts of the feathers darker ; a distinct 
superciliary stripe of clear yellow. Pileum uniform rich chestnut, darker 
next the bill, where divided medially by a short and indistinct streak of 
yellow. Upper parts in general olive-gray, deepening into yellowish 
olive-green on the upper tail-coverts. Tail-feathers dusky, edged exter- 
nally with pale olive-yellowish, the two outer pairs with their inner webs 
broadly tipped with white. Wings dusky, the remiges edged like the tail- 
feathers, wdth yellowish olive-green ; both rows of coverts tipped with 
pale grayish-buff, forming rather distinct indications of two bands. Wing, 
2.55 ; tail, 2.30 ; bill, from nostril, .30 ; tarsus, .80. 
Most other males in the series before me are rather duller than the one 
described. A specimen from Carlisle, Penn. (No. 152, Mus. S. F. Baird, 
April 26, 1845, — presumably a male), differs merely in the more indis- 
tinct character of the streaks along the sides, those of the breast being 
almost obsolete. One of the brightest males in the entire series is one in 
Mr. Nelson’s collection (No. 2,072, Waukegan, 111., April 12, 1876). This, 
