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PALM WARBLER.' 
numbers in the orange groves near Charleston, South Carolina, 
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, characterises 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 Wils.) They 
are fond of keeping among the thick foliage of the orange 
trees. A few are observed every year in spring, on the bor- 
ders 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 perhaps also in Canada, 
though probably not extending to the inhospitable climates of 
Hudson’s Bay, whose natural productions are so well known. 
Tlie 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, 
hardly notched, blackish, paler beneath ; feet, dusky grey, yel- 
lowish inside ; irides, dark brown, nearly black ; crown, bright 
chestnut bay; bottom of the plumage lead colour all over, much 
darker beneath ; a well-defined superciliar line, and the rudi- 
ment of another, on the medial base of the upper mandible, 
rich yellow : the same colour also encircles the eye ; streak 
through the eyes and cheeks dusky olive, somewhat intermixed 
with dull chestnut ; upper parts olive green, each feather being- 
dusky in the middle ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow olive; 
all beneath bright yellow ; sides of the neck, breast, and flanks, 
with chestnut streaks; superior wing-coverts blackish, margined 
and tipped with olive green, and somewhat tinged with chest- 
nut ; inferior wing-coverts yellowish ; quills dusky, edged ex- 
