240 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Dendroica dotninica, Baird. 



TELLOW-THKOATED GRAY WARBLER. 



MoUiciUn. dominica, L. Syst. Nat. 12th oJ. 1766, 33i (Ficcdula dmninica cw/;rea, Brlss. 

 Ill, 520, {)!. x.xvii, fig. 3). Dendroica dominica, Baiud, Rev. Am. Birds, 209. Mola- 

 cilla siq>crciliosa, BoDDjERT, Tableau PI. enl. 686, fig. 1, 1783. Dendroica superciliosa, 

 Baiju), Birds N. Am. 1858, 289. — Sclater (Xalapa, Oa.^aca, Jamaica, Mexico). — 

 ScLAiEK & Salvix, Iljis, ISBO, 274 (Dueiias, Guat. ; Sept.). — March. Pr. A. N. Sc. 

 1863, 293 (Jamaica). — Gundlacii, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; very common). ,1/"- 

 tacilla flavicolli.% G.MELIX, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 959. Hylma fl. L.\TH. ; Wils. II, \\\. 

 xii, fig. 6. MotaciUa jKnsilis, Gmelix, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 960. Stjlvia p. Lath. ; 

 ViEiLL. (St. Domingo). — Bon. ; AuD. Orn. Biog. I, pi. Ixxxv ; Niitt. Sijlvicola pciw. 

 KiCH ; Bos. ; AuD. Birds Am. II, pi. lx.\ix. — GossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 156 (Jamaica). 

 Ehimanphus peiis. Cab. Jour. Ill, 474 (Cuba). 



Other localities : Cordova, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 291. St. Dominrjo, Salli5, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Jamaica, GossE, Birds Jam. 156. 



Sp. Char. Upper part.s uniform grayish-bluo. Ohin and throat bright yellow ; under 

 parts white. Forehead, and sometimes most of crown, lores and cheeks, sides of throat, 

 and numerous streaks on the sides of the breast, black. A stripe from the nostrils over and 

 behind the eye, a crescent on the lower eyelid, the sides of the neck behind the black cheek- 

 patch, and two conspicuous bands on the wings, white. Terminal half of the outer webs 

 of the outer two, and terminal third of the third tail-feathers, white. Female almost 

 precisely similar. Length, ,^.10 ; wing, 2.G0: tail, 2..'?0. (.■i,.322.) 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Washington and Cleveland ; in win- 

 ter abundant in Cuba ; St. Domingo and Jamaica ; Mexico (Colima on west coast), and 

 Guatemala. Resident in Jamaica? 



An antumiial male (No. 1,098, Washington, D. C.) lia.s the blui.sli-ash 

 above obscured by a wash of brown ; tlic black " mask" less sharply defined, 

 the streaks on foreliead wanting ; the yellow paler and didlcr. and tlie white 

 beneath soiled with Ijrownish. 



In general pattern of coloration this species resembles two others ; one 

 from Arizona, the other from Porto Eico. The diagnoses are as follows : — 



Common Characters. Upper parts ash-gray, the forehead and sides of vertex 

 black. A line from nostril to above eye (pas.«ing into white behind), chin, and 

 throat, yellow, margined laterally with blackish ; crissum, inside of wings, axillars, 

 and two bands on wings, white. 



SuperciHary line extending to the nape, and white, excepting sometimes 

 anterior to the eye. Cheeks black, separated from the ash of the neck by 

 a white patch. Eyelids and infra-ocular crescent white. Back not streaked. 

 Bill lengthened, gonys almost concave. 



Yellow confined to juguluni ; rest of under jiarts white; the sides 



streaked with black .... dominica. 



Superciliary line scarcely extending beyond the eye, .and yellow, excepting 

 at extreme end. Cheeks a-shy, like sides of neck ; dusky only near the eye, 

 and not bordered on side of neck behind by white. Eyelids and infra- 

 o<;ular crescent yellow. Back streaked. Bill short, gonys slightly convex. 



