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however, is scarcely different from the one described, the only obvious dif- 
ference being the somewhat brighter yellow on the breast, and the greater 
amount of chestnut in the streaks of the side of the breast. The palest 
male is also a Waukegan specimen (No. 2,073, Mus., E. W. Nelson, April 
28, 1876), which has the posterior half of the superciliary stripe white 
and the whole breast whitish, the pure yellow being thus restricted to the 
throat and crissum. 
Adult Female in Spring (No. 2,786 Mus. K. K., Mt. Carmel, 111., Spring ; 
S. Turner). Similar to the male, as described above, but pileum mixed 
chestnut and dark umber-brown, distinctly streamed with dusky. Wing, 
2.35 ; tail, 2.05 ; bill, from nostril, .28 ; tarsus, .71. 
A female in my collection, from Calumet, 111. (May 12, 1875), is con- 
siderably paler and duller, the lower parts being whitish tinged with yel- 
low on the throat and jugulum, the crissum only continuous yellow ; even 
the superciliary stripe is white from the eye backward. The pileum is 
grayish-olive, like the back, tinged in one or two places with chestnut, 
and very indistinctly streaked. The streaks on the sides are almost ob- 
solete, but across the jugulum they are quite well defined. 
Adult {both sexes) in Winter. Lower parts dirty whitish, the breast and 
sides with narrow streaks of grayish brown ; throat and superciliary stripe 
loholly dirty whitish ; yellow entirely confined to the crissum, except a tinge 
on the abdomen, and along the edge of the wing in some specimens ; 
crown grayish-umber, with but little, if any, tinge of chestnut, and dis- 
tinctly streaked with dusky. 
This plumage is that of all late fall and winter specimens, whether from 
far north or the West Indies. I have seen no specimens from the latter 
region in the spring plumage. 
Subspecies hypochrysea. 
Dendrceca palmarum, Auct., in part. 
Hendrceca palmarum hypochrysea, Kidgway. 
Habitat. Atlantic States, from East Florida (in winter) to Nova Scotia. 
Breeding in Maine and northward, and wintering in the South Atlantic 
States ; apparently not found at all in West Indies, nor in Southern or 
Western Florida ! 
Adult Male in Spring (No. 2,164, Mus. E. E., Cambridge, Mass. ; W. 
Brewster). Entire lower parts, and a conspicuous superciliary stripe, 
bright yellow, entirely continuous and uniform beneath ; entire sides marked 
with broad streaks of deep chestnut, these most distinct on the sides of 
the breast. Auriculars mixed olive and chestnut (the latter prevailing), 
somewhat darker immediately behind the eye ; lore with an indistinct 
dusky streak. Entire pileum rich chestnut, becoming darker next the 
bill, where divided medially by a short and rather indistinct yellow streak. 
Best of the upper parts olive, tinged with brown on the back, and bright- 
