BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 41 7 



IsUuid of 8t. Croix, Greater Antille.s. 



('frill ioldjlareold (not Certliia flavi'ola Linnreus) Newton (A. and E. ), Ibis, 1859, 67, 



1)1. 12, fig. 3, egg (St. Croix). — Sci.atek, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 54, part (8t. 



Croix).— ScNDEVALL, (Efv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 623, part (St. 



Croix). 

 \_('ertliii)l<i~\ iiiiiitmi Baikd, Am. \at., vii, Oct., 1873, 61 1 (St. Croix, Greater Antil- 

 les; eoll. U. S. Nat. Mas.); in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427.— Coky, List 



Birds West Indies, 1885, 9. 

 Cniliiolct neirtmii Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 



508. — RiDGWAV, Prof. U. S.Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30 (synonymy). — Sci.ater, 

 ~ Cat. Birds Br t. Mns., xi, 18S6, 43.— Cory, Ank, iii, 1886, 51; Birds W. I., 



1889, 65. 

 ("[ertJilolal newtoid HiDiiw.w, Vrm-. V. S. Nat. Mns.,viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 

 Carebd newtoni Cory, Ank, viii, Jan., 1891, 39, 48; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 



116, 132. 

 ('erllilola bartolemicn (not Cerlliia lidrtolenurd Sj)arrmann) Fixscn, Verh. k. k. 



zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1871, 763, part (St. Croix). 

 [CW"//((ote] 6ariofem(V'aScLATER and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 16, i)art (St. 



Croix). 

 [('ertliiobi'] h'lrtliokinira Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 9, [)art (St. Croix). 



CCEREBA DOMINICANA (Taylor). 

 DOMINICAN BANANAaUIT. 



Similar to V. jxn-torlcensi^^ but tliroat nuu-h darker (imirh as in C. 

 jlaocola):, yellow rump-patch absent, the lower rump heino- merely 

 tinged with yellowish olive-green or olive-yellokwish; white wing-spot 

 obsolete or altogether wanting; genei'al color of upper parts not so 

 dark (on average), and white superciliary stripe narrower. 



Adults {ntxcn alike). — Upper parts plain sooty olive, nearly- black on 

 pileum, the back, etc., sometimes inclining to sooty slate, the lower 

 rump more or less strongly tinged with yellowish olive-green or olive- 

 yellowdsh, but without a well-defined patch of this color; base of 

 primaries without any white patch, or with a very minute one, the 

 white barely showing beyond tips of primary coverts; inner webs of 

 lateral rectrices ))roadly tipped with white, this 6.3-10.2 long on outer- 

 most rectrix; a rather narrow superciliary stripe of white (partly 

 yellow in yoimger birds) extending from sides of forehead to end of 

 auricular region, the forehead also sometimes white or gra3"ish;^ loral, 

 suborbital, and auricular regions sooty blackish; malar region, chin, 

 and throat uniform slate color; rest of under parts lemon yellow, 

 becoming paler and duller posteriorly, the under tail-coverts whitish, 

 the Hanks light olive-gra3ish tinged with j^ellow; bill black; legs and 

 feet dusky horn color (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— ljengi\i (skins), 103.6-121.4 (113.8); wing, 55.4-63.2 

 (58.9); tail, 38.1-42.7 (40.1); exposed culmen, 13-15 (14); tarsus, 

 17.3-19.8 (18.3); middle toe, 10.4-12.2 (11.4).'= 



^The superciliary stripe sometimes becomes obsolete anteriorly. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 



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