"" BTEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 595 



Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1882, 9 (s. e. Texas) .—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., 

 X, 1885, 320, 650 ( Bucaramanga, Remedies, and Medellin, Colombia; Panama 

 and Chepo, Isthnuis of Panama; Yeragua) . 



IDcndra'ca] cmtanea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 101. — Sclater and 8alvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 



D\_endr(fca\ castanen Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 304. 



Dmdroeca casfanea Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. F(')rh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 

 614 (monogr. ). 



Sylvia autummdis Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 65, pi. 23, fig. 3. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 632.— Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 448.— 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 195; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 

 1826, 84.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 390.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1831, 447, pi. 88. 



DENDROICA STRIATA (Forster). 

 BLACK-POLL 'WARBLER. 



Adult male in sjyring and suminer. — Entire pileum uniform l)lack; 

 hindneck streaked with black and white, in varying- relative propor- 

 tion; back and scapulars In-oadly streaked with black on a gray, pale 

 olive, or (more rarely) wood brown ground; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts similar but less distinctly streaked, often (especially the rump) 

 without streaks; tail dusky, with light g^ra}' edgings, the inner welxs of 

 two or three outermost rectrices with a subterminal patch of white 

 (largest on the lateral rectrix); wings dusky with light olive edgings 

 (more yellowish olive on primaries), the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with white, forming two conspicuous bands; sides of 

 head white, including lower eyelid, suborbital region, auricular region, 

 and malar region; sides of neck streaked with black and Avhite; under 

 parts white, broadly streaked laterally with black, the l)lack streaks 

 on sides of throat coalesced into two stripes converging and usually 

 united on chin, forming a conspicuous V-shaped mark; under tail- 

 coverts immaculate pure white; maxilla dusky with paler tomia; 

 mandible horn brownish, paler basally; iris brown; legs and feet pale 

 yellowish brown in dried skins (yellowish in life?); length (skins), 118- 

 iiO (125.8); wing. 71.4-7T.6 (74.2); tail, 48.6-54 (51.3); tarsus, 18.4- 

 20.4 (19.1); middle toe, 10.8-13 (12).^ 



Adult female in spring and summer. — Above varying from olive- 

 green to gray, streaked, more or less broadly, with blackish, the 

 streaks usually more or less obsolete on rump; wings and tail as in 

 adult male, but white wing-bands tinged with yellow (except in speci- 

 mens having a gray upper surface); under parts var^'ing from white 

 to pale olive-yellow (with all intermediate conditions — the under tail- 

 coverts always white), more or less distinctl}^ streaked laterally with 

 black or dusky, the streaks usually most distinct on sides of throat 



^ Twenty-five specimens. 



