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PALM WARBLER. 
SYLVIA PALMARUM. 
Plate X. Fig. 2. 
Motacilla palmarum, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 951, Sp. 53, winter dress. 
Sylvia palmarum , Lath. Ind. p. 544, Sp. 136. Vieile. Ois. Jim. Sept. II, p. 21, PI. 
73, ( and the other works of the same author ,) winter plumage. Nob. Add. Orn. U. S. 
in Jour. Ac. Ph. V, p. 29. Id. Cat. birds U. S. in Contr. Mad. Lye. Ph. I, p. 16, Sp. 
105. Id. Syn. birds U. S. Sp. 105, in Ann. Lyceum , N. Y. II, p. 78. 
Motacilla ruficapilla , Gmel. Syst. I, p. 971, Sp. 106, summer dress. 
Sylvia ruficapilla , Lath. Ind. summer dress, ( not of Vieill.) 
Ficedula martinicana , Briss. Av. Ill, p. 490, Sp. 50, PI. 22, Fig. 4, perfect plumage. 
Le Bimbele, ou fausse Linotte, Buff. Ois. Y, p. 330, winter dress. 
Figuier a tele rousse, Buff. Ois. V, p. 306, summer dress. 
Palm warbler , Lath. Syn. IV, p. 489, Sp. 131, winter dress. 
Bloody-side warbler , Lath. Syn: IV, p. 489, Sp. 115, {not of Penn.) summer plumage. 
Philadelphia Museum. 
This is one of those lively, transient visitants, which coming 
in spring from warmer regions, pass through the middle states on 
their way to still colder and more northern countries, to breed. 
From the scarcity of the species, its passage has hitherto been 
unobserved; and it is now for the first time introduced as a bird 
of the United States. Authors who have heretofore made mention 
of it, represent it as a permanent resident of St. Domingo, and 
other Islands of the West Indies, and even describe its nest, and 
habits, as observed there. 
In the United States, it is found during winter in Florida, where 
it is, at that season, one of the most common birds. In the month 
of November, they are very abundant in the neighbourhood of 
