588 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dendroica adelaichv Baird, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 212 (Porto Rico; coll. 



U.S.Nat. Mus.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 87; Birds W. I., 1889, 51; Cat. W.I. 



Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 132. 

 Dendroeca addaid<r Sundevall, Of v. k. Vet.-Akad. Furh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870,596 



(Porto Rico), 615 (monogr. ). 

 [Dendr(xca] adelaidie Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part. — Coues, 



Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text. 

 Dendroeca adelaidie Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 185 (Porto 



Rico).— Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 293, footnote.— Cory, Birds W. I., 1885, 



8.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 306. 

 D[endr(eca'] adelaidse Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 526 (diagnosis). 

 [^Dendroica gracix] var. adelaidie Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 608; in Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 220. 

 Sylvicola adelaidse Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 250 (Poito Rico). 



DENDROICA DELICATA Ridgway. 

 SANTA LUCIA WARBLER. 



Adult male. — Similar to D. adelaldw, but wing and tail much longer; 

 yellow superciliary stripe much broader, occupying whole forehead 

 except a median line of black; sides of crown more broadly black; 

 gray of upper parts deeper, more plumbeous; yellow of superciliaiy 

 stripe and under parts much deeper (rich lemon, scarcely' if at all paler 

 on abdomen); white on inner webs of lateral rectrices relatively less 

 extended, that on lateral rectrix occupying less than terminal half; 

 length (skins), 105-120 (114.2); wing, "54-57 (56); tail, 49-54 (51); 

 exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.1); tarsus, 17-20 (18.2); middle toe, 10.^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but coloration not quite 

 so deep, especially the yellow, which is exactly as in the adult male of 

 D. adelaidce., though much brighter on the abdomen than in that species; 

 black on sides of crown much narrower; white w'ing- bands narrower, 

 especially that across tips of greater coverts; length (skin), 113; w4ng, 

 55; tail, 48; exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 10.^ 



Young., after first molt. — Essentially like adults, but the gray of 

 upper parts strongly washed with brown, without an}" black on sides of 

 crown or center of forehead, and yellow of under parts, etc., less pure. 

 Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 

 Deiidneca adelaidie (not of Baird) Sclater, Proc. Zool., 1871, 269 (Santa Lucia; 

 crit.).— Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 649 ( Santa Lucia. ) . — Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 166 (Santa Lucia). 

 {^Dendroical adelaidie Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part. 

 Dendroeca adelaidie delicata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. Mar. 21, 1883, 



525 (Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 [Dendroica'] adelaidie delicata Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dendroica adelaidie delicata Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 37; Birds W. I., 1889, 51; Cat. 



W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 155. 

 D[endrceca:] delicata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 526. 

 Dendroica delicata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 129. 

 Dendroeca delicata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 306. — Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 395. 



^ Five specimens. '^ One specimen. 



