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Series JIT. 



9. D. coronata. A yellow patch on each side of the breast; above 

 ashy streaked with black ; belly white. ^. Breast more or less black ; 

 upper parts ash with a bluish tinge. 9 • Breast only streaked with black ; 

 ash of upper part grayish or lirownish. 



Throat white; a white superciliary streak; two white bands on 

 wing. Hub. Eastern Province of North America, north to Alaska 

 and Greenland; in winter south to Panama and West Indies (resi- 

 dent in Jamaica!) ........ var. coronata. 



Throat j^ellow ; no white superciliary streak ; one white patch 

 formed by the fusion of the two bands on the wing. Hab. Western 

 Province of North America from British Columbia, south to Cape 

 St. Lucas and Jalisco, Western Mexico ; east to Rocky Mountains. 



var. a u d u hunt. 

 Series IV. 



10. D. maculosa. Whole lower parts bright yellow; black streaks 

 across breast and along sides ; crown ash ; lores, auriculars, and back 

 black. 9 scarcely different. Hah. Eastern Province of North Amer- 

 ica, from Fort Simpson to Panama ; Culja and Bahamas. 



Series V. 



A. Above ashy-blue, or soft bluish-green. 



11. D. caerulea. Lower parts pure white or greenish-white; with or 

 without a narrow ban<l across the breast ; above fine ashy-blue, or soft 

 bluish-green; if blue ((?), the back and crown streaked with black; 

 if green (9 ^"^'l /""Oi these streaks obsolete. Ilab. Eastern Province 

 of United States (rare northward except in Mississippi Valley), south to 

 Bogota in winter ; Cuba. 



B. Above not ashy-blue nor blui.sh-green, but streaked with black ujjon an 

 ashy greenish-olive or yellowish ground, or else bright olive-green. 



a. Sides more or less rufous, and without l;)lack or dusky streaks on under 

 surfaces. 



12. D. penusylvanica. ^. Crown pure yellow; throat and auriculars 

 pure white ; 9 '"^^ similar, but crown greenish, and more or less streaked. 

 Juv. Above bright olive-green, nearly grass-green, tviihout streaks except 

 on the back; side of head, and sides, clear ashy, the latter with or without 

 a trace of chestnut ; eyelids and medial lower parts pure white. Sab. 

 Eastern Province of United State.s, south to Panama ; Bahamas. 



13. D. castanea. ^. Crown reddish-chestnut ; throat and sides rufous; 

 auriculars black. 9 similar, but crown thickly streaked, sometimes with- 

 out a trace of rufous ; jugulura and throat only tinged with rufous. Juv. 

 Above greenish-olive, streaks obsolete ; beneath, including lower tail- 

 coverts, pale grecnish-ljuff, or whitish-buff, and without any trace of 

 streaks on the sides (distinction from 9 of D. striata) the sides usually 

 with a tinge of chestnut. Sab. Eastern Province of North America, 

 from Hudson's Bay Territory to New Granada. 



b. Sides without any rufous, and with black or dusky streaks. 



Medial lower parts not streaked ; inner irehs of tail-feathers loith broad 



patch of n-hite. 

 11. D. striata. ^. Crown deep black ; auriculars and lower parts 

 white; throat with two series of black streaks, converging and forming 

 an angle on the chin. Above ashy streaked with black. 9 similar, 



