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Remsen,
J.V.
1973
Cape May Warbler
Dendroica tigrina
Nov. 10 Desert Center, Riverside Co, Calif: 1 ♀ in same palm tree
where Guy McCaskie + Jon Dunn had found it week before.
It remains inside the palm foliage feeding on flies
swarming over the rotting palm fruit (small dull berries).
Extremely tame, allowed incredible close approach, and
would not leave the tree unless all four of us shook the
fronds violently. A lifer for me — but an extremely
nondescript bird: like Yellow-rumped but had a
yellow patch below the eye in the auricular region that is
apparently diagnostic; shorter tail without conspicuous spots;
yellow rump, but more greenish-yellow than the lemon
yellow of the Audubons; smaller overall body; streaks on
breast more uniform in outline and pattern; call soft and
different.