518 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult fe)nalr.^L.ength (skins), 1()S-119 (114.9); wing-, .5.5->)»> (57.6); 

 tail, 43-47 (45.3); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11); tarsus, 19-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 10-12 (11).' 



Bahama Islands. 



{"!) Sylvicola ;rsiiva (not MulnciUti :tsllr<i Gmelin) Buyant, Proo. Bost. Soc. N. II., 

 vii, 1806, ()7 (Bahamas). 



Sylvlcola petecliia (not MotttciUa peU'chia Linn;eus) Bryant, Proc. Boston Sdc. 

 N. H., xi, 1867, 67 (Bahamas). 



Dendroica petechia (not Deudrceca petechia .Sclater) Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 1887, 495, part (Bahamas). 



\_Dendroica petecliia'] var. gandlachi (not Dendroica gundlacJti Baird) Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 216, part (Bahamas). 



Dendroica petechia gundlachi Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, part (Bahamas). 



Dendrceca petechia var. gwullachi Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 58. 



[Dendroica petechia'] (i. gundlachi Ridgway', Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. viii, 1885, 349, 

 part (Bahamas) . 



IDendrara^ petecliia (jundlachi Cory, List. Birds W. I., 1885, 8, part (Bahamas). 



Dendroicn petechia guiidlachi Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 30, part (Bahamas); Birds 

 W. I., 1889, 44; Auk, viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands; Inagua), 298 (Abaco), 350 

 (Great Bahama), 351 (Inagua); ix, 1892, 48 (Mariguana), 49 (Watlings I.; 

 Inagua); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 118 (Great Bahama, Al)afo, Eleuthera, 

 New Providence, Exuma Keys, Concepcion I., Watlings I., Rum Cay, Long 

 I., Acklin I., Mariguana, North Caicos, East Caicos, and Great Inagua). — 

 Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 68 (Andros I.). — Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 335 

 (New Providence), 336 (Eleuthera), 337 (Watlings I.), 338 (Rum Cay), 

 339 (Concepcion I.). 



D\_endroica] petecliia giindlaclii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 573, in 

 text, part (Bahamas). 



Dendroica petechia flaeiceps Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H.,iv, no. 1, Dec. 29, 

 1892, 310 (Rum Cay; coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA BARTHOLEMICA Sundevall. 

 PORTO RICAN YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to J). }). petechia^ but wing and tail shorter, bill and tarsus 

 longer (the former also stouter), and coloration more intense; the adult 



' Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different islands average as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Four ad (lit males from Watlings Island 



Nine adult males from Rum Cay 



One adult male from Cat Island 



One adult male from Eleuthera Island 



Four adult males from Concepcion Island . . . 

 One adult male from New Providence Island 



fp;males. 



Three adult females from Watlings Island . . . 



Four adult females from Rum Cay 



Three adult females from Concepcion Island 



Tar.sus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



10.3 

 11.2 

 11.3 



