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REVIEW or AlVIERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Dendroica pliaretra. 



Sylvicola pharetra, Gosse, Birds Jam. 1847, 163. — Ib. Illust. Birds Jam. 

 — OsBURN, Zoologist, 6660. — Dendroica pharetra, Sclatee, P. Z. S. 

 1861, 71.— Ib. Catal. 1862, 358, no. 193. 

 Hah. Jamaica only. 



As stated by Dr. Sclater, this is a perfectly good species, rather 

 similar in general appearance to Mniotilla varia, but with the 

 feet and bill of Dendroica. The resemblance to D. striata is quite 

 close. The specimens before me are not in very good condition, but 

 the colors differ from those of Mniotilla varia in having all the 

 feathers of the crown black, edged with white, causing a fine streak- 

 ing, instead of having the crown black with white median and lateral 

 stripe {M. varia), or entirely black (Z>. striata). The rump and 

 upper tail coverts are unstreaked brownish-olive, not black as in M. 

 varia, nor streaked with black, as in D. striata. The sides of the 

 head are streaked or spotted with black ; the streaks are on the front 

 of the jugulum as well as the sides. There is no large white patch 

 on the inner web of the outer tail feathers as in the two other species 

 mentioned, but merely a dirty whitish edging at the ends of the 

 same feathers. This last mentioned character will probably dis- 

 tinguish it in any stage of plumage. Bill very stout. Length, 4.70 ; 

 wing, 2.55; tail, 2.50. 



Deudroica striata. 



Muscicapa striata, Forsteb, Phil. Trans. LXII, 383, 428. — Motacilla s. 

 GiiELiN. — Sylvia s. Lath, ; Vieillot, II, pi. 75, 76. — Wils. IV, pi. 

 30, fig. 3 ; VI, pi. 54.— Bon. ; Nutt. ; Ann. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 133.— 

 Lembeye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 33. — Sylvicola s. Swainson ; Bon. ; Acd. 

 B. A. II, pi. 78.— Reinhakdt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 73 (Green- 

 land). —Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 113. — Mniotilla s. Reinh. Ibis, 

 1861, 6 (Greenland). — Rhimanphus s. Cab. Jour. 111,475 (Cuba). — 

 Dendroica s. Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 280.— Copes, Pr. A. N. Sc. 

 1861, 220 (Labrador coast).— Sclater, CataL 1861, 31, no. 193.— 

 G0NDL. Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; rare). 



Other Localities Quoted : Bogota, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1S55, 143. 



Bahamas, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1839. 

 Hah. Eastern province of all N. America to Arctic Ocean ; Greenland ; Cuba, 

 in winter (rare) ; Bahamas ; Bogota. Not recorded from intermediate localities. 



