BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



Bendroeca decora Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882,i 92 (Guatemala).— Salvin 



and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 136, pi. 10, fig. 1.— Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 305. 

 Dendroica gracix decora Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 318. 

 D[endroica^ decora Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 506. 

 Dendroica decora Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 585 (Segovia R., 



Honduras) .—Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 159 (Tonalti, Chiapas; Santo Domingo, 



Oaxaca). 



DENDROICA ADELAIDiE Baird. 

 ADELAIDE'S WARBLER. 



Much like D. gracice decora, but back and sides without black streaks 

 and yellow of under parts extending over abdomen to anal region; 

 wing and tail shorter. 



Adult male. — Above plain slate-gra}^ the forehead and crown nar- 

 rowly streaked with black and margined along each side bv a narrow 

 black stripe; wings and tail dull black or dusky with slate-gray edg- 

 ings (paler on remiges, where nearly white terminally); middle and 

 greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming two distinct 

 bands, of which the posterior one is narrower, the white confined to 

 outer webs, and not extending to the innermost coverts; inner webs of 

 three outermost rectrices extensively white terminally, the white occu- 

 pying about the term-inal half on lateral rectrix; a broad superciliary 

 stripe of yellow, scarcely extending beyond eye, the posterior extremity 

 narrow and whitish; a yellow suborbital spot, separated from the yel- 

 low supraloral stripe by a loral streak of black or dusky gray: auricu- 

 lar region and sides of neck plain gray; a spot of black on sides of neck 

 (between gray of sides of neck and 3'ellow of lower throat), with an 

 indistinct whitish space immediately in front of it; malar region, chin, 

 throat, chest, and breast lemon yellow, passing into paler yellow on 

 abdomen and this into white on under tail-coverts, the sides and flanks 

 tinged with olive, but not streaked; under wing-coverts white; bill 

 blackish, with paler tomia; legs and feet light brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 97-100 (98.3); wing, 49-51 (50); tail, 41-41 

 (42.3); exposed culmen, 10; tarsus 17-19 (18.6); middle toe, 9-10 (9.6). '^ 

 Young, first plumage. — Above plain brownish gray, strongly washed 

 with brown on back; no black on forehead nor crown; a narrow super- 

 ciliary streak (scarcely passing beyond eye), suborbital spot, chin, 

 throat, and chest pale primrose yellow or yellowish white, the remain- 

 ing under parts yellowish white; chest and sides of breast spotted with 

 grayish dusky; wings and tail as in adult, but edgings more brownish or 

 olive-gray and wing-bands narrower and less purely white. 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



1 Dated 1882, but cited in the Biologia Centrali- Americana, 1881, as above. 

 "^ Three specimens. 



