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middle wino--(-()vorts broadly tipped with dull yellowish olive-green; 

 tail as in adult male, but 3"ellow of inner webs of rectrices paler and 

 more restricted; sides of head (including lores and orbital ring) and 

 under parts pale yellow (straw yellow or naples yellow), tinged on sides 

 with olive-green, the lower abdomen paler, sometimes nearly white; 

 bill and feet as in adult male, but mandible paler and more brownish; 

 length (skins), 112-130 (119.7); wing, 59-62 (60.4); tail, -17-50 (48.-1); 

 exposed culmen, 10.5-11 (10.9); tarsus, 20-22 (21.2); middle toe, 11- 

 13 (12). 1 



[Many adult females of this form have the yellow of under parts 

 partly replaced by white, and the olive-green of upper parts partly 

 replaced by gray, especially on sides of head and neck, hindneck, and 

 scapulars. There is nothing to indicate that these are younger birds, 

 and 1 ])elieve that the variation is simply an individual one.] 



Island of flamaica, (jreater Antilles; island of Haiti? 



[^folaciUa] petechia LiKNMVS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1766, 334 (based on The Yellow 



Red-poll, Arienln lutea vertice rvhro, Edwards, (Tleanings Nat. Hist., v, 99, pi. 



256, fig. 1).— (Imelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 983. 

 Mvlacilhi petechia Lksson, Traite d'Orn., i, 1831, 418. 

 [^Sylvia^ petechia L.\tham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 535. 

 Sylvia petechia \i-E.ih\.oT:, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 32, pi. 91; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat. xi, 1817, 228; Enc. Meth. ii, 1823, 443. 

 M[niotilta\ petechia Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [Mniotilta] petechia Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. .3496. 

 Dendrwra petechia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., 1861, 71 (Jamaica); Cat. Am. 



Birds, 1862, 32, part (Jamaica).— Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote 



(synonymy). — Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 57. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mns., X, 1885, 277, 644 (excl. loc. Bahamas). 

 [Dendrceca^ j)etechia Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part. — Cory, 



List Birds AV. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dlendrara] petechia 'Newtoh (A. and E. ), Handh. .Jamaica, 1881, 106. 

 Dendroira petechia. March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 292 (Jamaica). — 



Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 199 (Jamaica).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 29, 



jiart (Jamaica); Birds W. I., 1889, 43, part; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 118, 



part (Jamaica). 

 Dlendroica] petechia Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 495, part (Jamaica). 

 [Dendroica petechia'] var. jH'tecIria Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hi.st. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 217, part (.Tamaica; Haiti?). 

 [Dendroica petechia'] a. pctechta Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 349. 

 Sijlvicola icsliva (not MotaciUa :rstiva Gmelin) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 157. 

 [Dendroeca petechia] e. jamaicensis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr.). 

 (?) [MotaciUa] alhicollis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 983 (Santo Domingo; 



based on JjC Fignier de S. Domingue, Ficedrda domiyiicensis Brisson, Orn., iii, 



494, pi. 26, fig. 5). 

 (?) [Sylvia] albicollis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 535. 

 (?) Sylvia albicoliff Vieillot, Nouv. Diet d'Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 221. 



' Six specimens, from Jamaica. 



