606 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



sides of neck and chest a series of l)road black streaks or spots, these 

 sometimes extending beyond the yellow over sides of breast, where 

 the gray on each side encroaches more upon the white of the median 

 portion; bill black; legs and feet dark horn brown; length (skins), 

 111.8-114.3(113); wing, 56-60.1: (58.9); tail, 18.2-50.3 (19.4); exposed 

 culmen, 10-10.1 (10.3); tarsus, 16-16.7 (16.1); middle toe, 10.6-11 

 (lO.S).^ 



Adult (?) male in winter.^ — Similar to the spring and summer plum- 

 age but general color of upper parts smoke gray, less strongly con- 

 trasted with olive-green of crown and forehead; sides and flanks more 

 strongly tinged with pale brown; black streaks along lateral margin of 

 yellow chest-patch less distinct, and bill light horn brownish instead 

 of black. 



Adult female in spring and summer. — Similar to the adult male of 

 corresponding season and not always distinguishable, but visually very 

 slightly duller in color, or with the black streaks along lateral margin 

 of yellow chest-patch smaller or less distinct; length (skins), 109.2-115.6 

 (111.8); wing, 55.9-57.7 (57); tail, 17.5-48.3 (48.5); exposed culmen, 

 10.2-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 16.3-16.8 (16.5); middle toe, 10.7-11.4 (11).' 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles (in pine woods). 



Si/lncolapityophila Gundlach, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1855, 160 (Cuba). — 



Brewer, Proc. Bost. Sog. N. H., vii, 1860, 307. 

 Rhimamphiis pityopMhis Gv'NTii.Acn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 240. 

 De7irlroica piti/ophiln Baird, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 208.— Cory, Auk, lii, 



1886, 38;' Birds W. I., 1889, 52; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 129. 

 Dlendroica] pityopMla Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 515. 

 D\^(n(h-oica'\ pifynjihila Baird, Brewer, and Rujgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 221. 

 Dendraxa jiityopkila Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 234. — Coues, 



Birds Col. Val., 1878, 296 (synonymy).— Cory, Birds W. I., 1889, 38 



(Cuba).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 322. 

 IDendraca] pUyophila Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text.— 



Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dendroeca pityopMla Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 



612 (monogr.). 

 [il/mo/(7to] pUyophila Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3499.— Giebel, Thesaurus 



Orn., ii, 1875, 606. 



DENDROICA PITYOPHILA BAHAMENSIS Cory. 

 BAHAMA WARBLER. 



Adult male. — "Upper parts, including sides of the head and neck, 

 plumbeous gray, not light ash gray as in Dendroica pityophila Gund- 

 lach. Forehead and crown greenish 3^ellow, showing light yellow at 

 the base of the upper mandible; throat and upper breast yellow, bor- 

 dered on the breast by a few feathers marked unevenly with black. 



^Five specimens. " Possibly young male in first winter. ^ Three specimens. 



