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PALM, WARBLER.
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Plate X. Fig. 2.
Motacilla palmarum, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 951, Sp. 53, winter dress;
Sylvia palmarum, Lath. Ind. p; 544, Sp. 136. Vibim*. Ois. Am. Sept. HE, p. -21,PÏ*
>7^ [and the other works of the Sarnie author,) winter plumage.. IJob. Add. Om:L[\M
in Jour. Ac. Ph.N, g, 2$. Id. Cat. birds U. S. in Contr. Mad. Lye. Ph, I, p'. 16, Sp.
J|05. Id. Syn. birds U...S. Sp. 105, in Ann. Lyceum, N. Y. II, p-. 78..
Motacilla rujkapilla, Gmel. Syst. I, p. 971, Sp. 106, summer dress.
Sylvia rufieapUla, Lath. Ind. summer dress, (not of'VlEffiE;} :
Ficedula martinicana, Brass. Av. HI, p; éOC^ Sg. 50;3P1. &9L, Figs 4, perfect plumage, /
Le Bimbelé, ou fausse Linotte, Büff. Ois. V, p,. j|30j winter dress.
Figuier h tele rousse, Buff. Ois. V, p. 306, summed dress.
Palm warbler, Lath. Syn. IV, p. 489, Sp. 131, winter dress.
Bloody-side warbler, Lath, Syn. IV, p. 489, Sp. 115, (no< of Penn.) summer plumage.
Philadelphia Museum.
This is one of those lively, transient visitants, which coming
in spring from warmer regions, pass through the middle states on
their way to still colder and moire northern countries, to iMMfc
From the iscareity -of the species, its passage has .hitherto been
unobserved; andüt is now for the first time introduced as a bird
of the United States. Authors who have heretofore made mention
of it, represent it as a permanent resident of St. Domingo, and
other Islands of' the West Indies, and even describe its nést, and
. habits, as observed Jthere.
In the United States, it is found during winter in Florida, where
it is, at that season, qne of, the móst common birds. In the month
of November, they are very abundant in the neighbourhood of
St;, Augustine, |ipi East/Florida, even in the town, andi in other
parts of the'territory, wherever the orasyg$'4i<ee.is
rare elsewhere. They are found in. great numbers in the orange-
groves near Charleston,. Soutb-Garolina,. at the same season, and
have\also :bh'ej& obspnved ati'Key Wes$,< and the Tortugas, in the
mid:dle of February, and at Key Yacaswin.tbe middle of,' March.
Their manners are sprightly, and a jerking of the..tail, like the
Peweey characterizes them at- .ftrst sight- from a. distance.,/; J^he
only/ndte ,we have heard them utter; is a simple chirp', very miich
like that of the Black and Yellow Warbler. Syliia maculosa,
{Magnolia of WilsJMThey are,fends of; keeping among the thick
foliage of the orangertrees. , A few are observed* ftyiiSy year in
spring; on the borders of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, as well
as in the central parts of New-Jersey, on thdn passage,;!©. 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 thei sqventeenth of April, in* the morning. /It,was« affine adult
malejs in the;,gaye^ plumage of the breeding season, in which it is
nowTor the first time figured, and a description is. subjoined. • ,
Length/fiv^iinches and a quarter, extent more, than eight inches^
Bill five-eighths of an inch long; > very slender,*, straight, hardly
notched, 2 blackish, paler beneath. Feet dusky-gray, yellowish
u^j||de; irides dark browp, 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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