DENDROICA. 



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reaches the shaft on the outer three feathers alone, and in fact even 

 here the upper surface shows a slight suffusion of the color of the 

 shaft along its inner edge. The isolation on the fourth feather, how- 

 ever, amounts to two or three hundredths of an inch, and on the 

 fifth to half the web. In most specimens, however, there is more 

 or less brown along the inside of all the shafts. In high ])lumaged 

 males of sestiva the yellow reaches the shaft in the outer five feathers, 

 the fifth exhibiting a slight suffusion only in its terminal half; some- 

 times, however, this suffusion is seen on the fourth. There is con- 

 siderably less yellow on the inner edges of the quills than in sestiva 

 in which the yellow reaches the shaft near the base. 



The orange-brown tinge to the whole top of the head is an im- 

 portant character of j^x^fechia, even though sometimes wanting or 

 obscured. Not unfrequently, however, traces of the same are seen in 

 sestiva; and one specimen (4,300, Louisiana) has as much reddish 

 in the crown as many males of petechia. 



I have not noticed, in petechia, the obscure brownish streaks seen 

 on the backs of high plumaged specimens of sestiva ; and the rump 

 is more uniformly greenish-olive, instead of having the feathers 

 much edged with yellow. 



Dendroica 



fMotaciUa rnJicapiUa, Gmelin, S. N. I, 1788, 971 (based on Ficedula 

 , martini carta, Bkisson, III, 490, pi. xxii, fig. 4, Martinique). 



?Chloris erithachorides, FEUiLife, Jour. Obs. Phys. Ill, 413. 

 ?Dendroica a-stiva, Newton, Ibis, I, 1859, 143 (St. Croix). 

 ? Dendroica petechia, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 192, 376 (St. Thomas). 



—? Sylvia petechia, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 32, pi. 91 (" U. 



States"). 



I have little douljt that the Golden Warblers of St. Croix and St. 

 Thomas ai'e specifically different from those inhabiting Jamaica 

 and Cuba respectively, and would not be much surprised to find 

 that each of the first-mentioned islands, as well as others of the 

 West Indian group, possessed a Golden Warbler peculiar to itself. 



