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dusk}' passing beneath the eye, but ehant^ing to dull gra}- ish brown, 

 and continuing*, broadly, over the auriculars to the nape; lower parts 

 dingy olive-yellow, brighter on the bi-east and upper part of r.bdomen; 

 anal region and under tail-coverts pale buffy yellowish; lining of wing 

 pure white, changing to yellow along the edge of the wing; wing 

 speculum smaller than in the adult, l)ut still very conspicuous. 

 Island of Old Providence (and St. Andrews?), Caribbean Sea, 



Cerlhiola tricolor Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, July 29, 1884, 178 (island 

 of Old Providence, Caribbean Sea; coll. U. S. Nat. ,AIus.); viii, 1885, 29 

 (synonymy).— ScLATEK, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 38. — Cory, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 180 (Old Providence). 



C[ertMola^ tricolor Ridgw ay , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 27 (diagnosis). 



(?) Certhiola tricolor Cory, Auk, iv, 1889, 181 (St. Andrews I., Caribbean Sea). 



Clcereba] tricolor Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 40. 



CCEREBA LUTEOLA (Cabanis). 

 TOBAGO BANANAQUIT. 



Adults {sexes aUke). — Upper parts plain sooty black, relieved b}' a 

 white superciliary stripe (extending from nostril to occiput), a white 

 spot (of variable extent) at base of six or seven outermost primaries 

 (except the outermost), and a large patch of clear lemon yellow cover- 

 ing rump; primaries narrowly edged with light grayish; inner we})s of 

 two lateral rectrices broadlj- tipped with white (about 7.(5 long on 

 outermost); loral, suborbital, and auricular regions and sides of neck 

 sooty black, like upper parts; malar region, chin, and throat luiiform 

 gray (no. 6, or between no. 5 and no. 6^); rest of under parts lemon 

 3'ellow (sometimes tinged with or inclining to safl'ron yellow on chest), 

 becoming paler on abdomen and passing on flanks into 3'ellowish gray 

 or olive, the under tail-coverts white; bill ])lack; legs and feet duskj' 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 84.6-115.1 (100.8); wing, 52.8-62.7 

 (57.2); tail, 29-41.1 (33.8); exposed culraen, 11.9-14 (13); tarsus, 

 16.3-17.8 (17); middle toe, 10.7-11.4 (10.9).^ 



^ See Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, pi. 2. 



^Twelve specimens, mostly males. Specimens from different localities average as 

 follows: 



L(X'iiIitv. 



Win«. 



One adult from Bogota, Colombia 



Two adult males from Santa Marta, Colombia o7. 



Two adults (one male) from Venezuela •''6. 6 



One adult male from Margarita Island, Venezuela • rt'l.'i 



Three adults from Trinidad | 57.2 



Two a(hilt males from Tobago ' o9. 4 



One adult female from Tobago I 56. 9 



33.8 



38.4 



36.6 



■29 



36.1 



37.1 



32.8 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



11.7 

 12.4 

 13.2 

 11.9 

 13.2 

 13.7 

 13 



17 



17.3 



16.3 



17 



17.3 



17.5 



Middle 

 toe. 



10.9 

 10.9 

 10.7 

 10.7 

 11.4 

 10.7 



The specimen from Bogota is exactly intermediate in coloration between C. laleola 



