520 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dendnecn petechia \ar. ruficupUla hAWREtiCE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., i, 1878,486 



(Barbuda; Antigua). 

 Dendrveca petechia ruficapilla Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote. 

 [i)enc?r«ca] petechia ruficapilla Cory, List. Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dendroica petechia ruficapiUa QoRY, Xvik, \\\,\S%&,Z\ (Barbuda, Antigua; Porto 



Rico; St. Thomas); vii, 1890,374 (Anegada), 375 (Virgin Gorda); viii, 1891, 



47 (Anguilla; St. Eustatius); Birds W. I., 1889, 45; C^t. W. L Birds, 1892, 



17, 118 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas; Virgin Gorda; Anegada; St. Croix; 



Anguilla; St. Bartholomew; St. Eustatius; St. Christopher; Barbuda; 



Antigua). 

 IDendroica petechia] y. i-ufi^apillaRiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 349. 

 Dendroica ruficapilla Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 48 (St. Croix; St. Christopher); Cat. 



W. I. Birds, 1892, 155 (St. Bartholomew). 

 Deyidraca ruficapilla Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 275, 644. — Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 499 (Anguilla). 

 Dendroica petechia (not MotaciUa petechia Linnseus) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1860, 192, 376 (St. Thomas).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 



1884, 172 (St. Thomas). 

 Dendraca petechia Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 32, part (St. Croix). — Taylor, 



Ibis, 1864, 166, part (Porto Rico).— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 



233 (Antigua), 239 (Barbuda). 

 D{^endr(jeca'\ .-estiva Newton (A. and E. ), Ibis, 1859, 143 (St. Croix). 

 Dendroica [no specific name] Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 201 (St. Croix; 



St. Thomas). 



IMniotilta'] ? Baird, Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3497. 



Dendroeca petechia 2)ortoricensis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 



1870, 596 {nomen nudum/). 

 Dendroeca petechia, stirps barthelemica Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 582 (St. Bartholomew; descr. eggs; nomen nudum.'). 

 [Dendroeca petechia] a. bartholemica^ Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Fctrli. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 607 (St. Bartholomew; coll. Stockholm Mus.). 

 \_Dendroeca petechia] b. cruciana Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (St. Croix) . 



DENDROICA PETECHIA GUNDLACHI (Baird). 

 CUBAN YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. x>- petechia., but duller in color; adult male with upper 

 parts much darker olive-green, the pileum usually coneolor with the 

 back, sometimes slightly more yellowish, very rarely tinged with 

 orange-ochraceous, and wing-edgings less purely yellow; adult female 

 usually duller in color than in D. j)- J)etecJiia^ often gra3'ish olive- 

 green, or even largely gray, above, and dull whitish, merely tinged 

 here and there with yellow, beneath.^ 



Adult ?/iaZ6.— Length (skins), 115-125 (119.1); wing, 60-66.5 (62.1); 

 tail, 46-52 (49.3); exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 19.5-21.5 (20.5); middle 

 toe, 11-13 (11.9).^ 



■The specimens examined are nearly all in worn plumage, and the tlifferences 

 observed in these may possibly not be observable in good plumaged examples; never- 

 theless, this series of Cuban birds when compared with an equal series in same stage 

 of plumage from the island of Grand Cayman [D. p. auncapdla Ridgway, and one of 

 D. petechia petechia) shows very conspicuous and uniform differences. 



*Ten specimens. 



