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PALM WARBLER. 13 
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-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, characterizes 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 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 perhaps also in 
Canada, though probably not extending to the inhospitable climates 
of Hudson’s Bay, whose natural productions are so well known. 
The bird represented in the plate, was shot near Bordentown, 
on the seventeenth 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-gray, yellowish 
inside; irides dark brown, nearly black. Crown bright chesnut- 
bay, bottom of the plumage lead-colour all over, much darker 
beneath; a well defined superciliar line, and the rudiment 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 chesnut; 
upper parts olive-green, each feather being dusky in the middle; 
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