428 NOKTH AMEKICAN BIRDS. 



a. Throat black; contiinious with black of cheeks; or else very dark 

 plumbeous, scarcely distinguishable from the cheeks. 



Median line of throat white, the sides black like the cheeks ; chin 

 alone black. Superciliary stripes not confluent anteriorly. Ilab. 



Martinique martinicana} 



Whole throat blackish. No white I'ronlal band ? 



Wing 2..50 inches. Belly ochraceous. Hab. Dominiea Isl- 

 and, West Indies dominlcana.' 



Wing 2.20 inches. Belly more yellow. Hab. Barbadoes . 



barhddeitsis.^ 

 Whole throat very dark plumbeous. A whiti.sh frontal broad 

 band connecting the superciliarj- stripes which extend in front of 



the eye. Hab. Antigua, West Indies fronkdis.* 



A grayish frontal band ; superciliary stripes narrow ; not extend- 

 ing in front of eye. Trace of white patch at base of primaries 



bartholemicn? 

 B. Head blackish, in distinct eontra-st to the more olivacaceous back. Outer 

 tail-feather with outer web scarcely lipped with white. Wing-coverts not mar- 

 gined with paler. Throat light ash, in distinct contrast to black of cheek. 

 1. A distinct external white wing-patch at base of primaries. 



Rump olive-green. Hab. Mexico and Central America, but 



hardly reaching line of Panama R. R mexicana.^ 



Rump olive-yellow. JIab. Panama R. R. ; south along An- 

 des to Peru ......... peruviana? 



a. No external white wing-patch. 



Rump olive-green. Ilab. Brazil and Guiana . . . chlorvptjcja.* 



The precediiii; table is based upon a critical examination of many hundred 

 specimens belonging to the Smithsonian Institution. — S. F. Baikd. 



Certhiola bahamensis, Kkicii. 



BAHAMA CREEPER. 



Certhia. flaveola, var. ^. LiNN'. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, I, IZfifi, 187. ("Ccrthia" bahamcrm.3, 

 Catesby, Car. tab. 59. Bahamas.) Certhiola flaveola, Baiiu), Biids N. Am. 18.58, 

 924, pi. Ixxxiii, f. 3 (Indian Key, Fla.). Ccrlhiola balmrmnsis, Kkich. Haiidb. I, 1853, 

 253 (Cateshv, Car. tab. 59, Bahamas). —Ca.ssin, Pr. A. N. .S. I'h. 1864, 271. C. 

 bairdi, Cabanis, .Jour. Oru. 1865, 412 (C. flaveola, I?\nin, Birds N. A.). 



Sp. Chae. (11,9.51 (J, Bahamas.) Above dark dusky-brown ; scarcely darker on the 

 head ; the rump yellow. Edge of wing and a triangular patch covering the front of breast 

 (the angle behind) pale yellow ; the rest of under parts pale ashy-white, purest on front 



1 C. marlinieana, Reich. Hand. I, 1853, 252. C. albigula, BoN. 



^ 0. dominimna, Tavi.oh, Ibi.s, 1864, 167. 



' C. barbadensis, Baird, MSS. 



* C. frontalis, Baird, MSS. 



' C. bartholcmim, Sundevall & SrAKRMANN, Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 1869, 622. 



« C. mexieana, ScLATKR, P. Z. S. 1856, 286. 



' C. peruviana, Cab. Journ. 1865, 413? Perhaps different. 



' C. chloropi/ga, Cau. M. H. 1851, 97. C. brasilicnsis, Bp. 



