586 



BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1881, 142 (San Juan Co., Colorado, in pines up to 7,500 ft.) . — Ridgw.w, Nom. 



N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 104.— Hensiiaw, Auk, ii, 1885, 331 (upper Pecos R., 



New Mexico, fall migrant). — Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 304, 



648. 

 [Dendra'ca} graciie Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 103. — Sclater and 8alvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 

 Dlendra-ca'] gracise Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 306. 

 Dendnvca gracix Elliot, Illustr. Unfig Birds N. Am., i, 1869, pi. 6. 

 Dendroeca graeue Sundevall, Of v. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 611 



(monogr. ). 

 [Mniotilta'] gracise Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3489. — Giebel, Thesaurus 



Orn., 1875, 603. 

 [Dendneca gracix'] a. gracix Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 292. 



DENDROICA GRACIi^E DECORA Ridgway. 

 DECORATED WARBLER. 



Similar to D. g. (/racke, but smaller; 3'ellow superciliary .stripe 

 shorter, without whitish posterior extremity; 3"ellow ot throat and 

 chest extending further backward, covering upper chest/ 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 106-117 (111.5); wing, 55-62 (57); 

 tail, 43^7 (45); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.7); tarsus, 16-18 (17); middle 

 toe, 10.' 



State of Oaxaca'* (Zapotitlan; mountains near Santo Domingo, June 

 18) and Chiapas^ (mountains near Tonala, August 15) southern Mexico; 

 Guatemala (Toyabai-Guitche, May 19); British Honduras (Belize); 

 Honduras (Rio Segovia, July 17). 



Dendrceca gracise (not of Baird) Salvin, Ibis, 1873, 428 (Guatemala). 

 \^Dendrceca] gracise Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9 (Honduras). 

 Dendroica gracise, var. decora Ridcjway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 608 (Belize, 



British Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 505. 

 [Dendroica gracias'] var. decora Baird, Brewer, and Ridc^way, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



i, 1874, 220, 244. 

 [Dendroeca gracise'] b. decora Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 292. 



' Except in specimens, doubtfully referred to this form, from States of Oaxaca and 

 Chiapas, southern Mexico. 



'^ Three specimens, one of them (from Oaxaca) not sexed and possibly not a male. 

 These three specimens measure, respectively, as follows: 



^ I am doubtful whether or not specimens from Oaxaca and Chiapas are properly 

 referred to this form, the two specimens examined having the yellow of under parts 

 restricted to the throat and chest, as in D. g. gracise. 



