352 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



the innermost secondaries dark rufous, with distinct narrow bars of 

 black ; upper mandible dark-brown, the under yellowish-white ; feet 

 pale brown. 



Length, 4J in. ; wing, 2\ ; tail, if; tarsus, \\- } bill from front, ^\ ; 

 from rictus, f . 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



2. Dcndrceca -plumbed. 



Male. The whole of the upper plumage is dark plumbeous ; a 

 narrow white line extends from the bill, over and beyond the eye, 

 and there is a white mark on the lower eyelid ; the lores are black ; 

 the under plumage is of a lighter plumbeous than that of the upper; 

 the chin, middle of the throat and of the breast intermixed with 

 white, center of abdomen white ; the two middle tail-feathers, and 

 the outer webs of the others, are like the back in color ; the inner 

 webs are blackish slate-color ; on the inner web of the outer tail- 

 feather, at the end, is a spot of white ; on the next feather is a 

 smaller one, and the next two have only a terminal edging of white ; 

 the middle and greater wing-coverts have their outer webs of the 

 color of the back, and their inner webs black ; they end conspicu- 

 ously with white, forming two bars across the wings ; quills with 

 their outer webs like the back, and their inner blackish slate-color ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillars white ; upper mandible black, the 

 under light horn-color ; tarsi and toes light brown. 



Length (skin), 5^ in. ; wing, 2j\ ; tail, 2.\ ; tarsus, f ; bill from 

 front, fg. 



The female is above of a dark greenish olive ; it has black lores, 

 with a white stripe over the eye and on the lower eyelid, just as in 

 the male ; below it is of a much lighter or grayish-olive, the chin, 

 middle of the throat and of the breast mixed with pale yellowish- 

 white, the middle of the abdomen is pale yellow ; the ends of the 

 wins;-coverts, the under wing-coverts, and the axillars, are white, 

 with just a tinge of yellow ; the spots at the ends of the tail-feathers, 

 as in the male| but less distinct ; bill and feet of the same color as 

 those of the male. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



3. Vircosylvia calidris, var. Do?nzmcana* 

 [Dominica Catalogue, p. 55.] 



