BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 521 



Adult fern ale.— l^ei^gth (skins), 112-125 (119.7); wing, 56-62 (58.7); 

 tail, 4A-AS (16.1:); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.8); tarsus, 20-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 11.^ 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 



Si/lria n'stiva (not Molacilla lestiva Gmclin) LE^rBEVE, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 



1850, 31 (not pi. 6, fig. 3). 

 KhuitampJms xstiims Cabanis, Journ. fi'ir Orn., 1855, 472 (Cuba); 1860, :526 



(do.).— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiirOrn., 1861, 407 (Cuba). 

 Dendrolca albicollis {not Moiacilla albicollis Gmelin) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci: 



Phila.,1860, 192 (Cuba).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y.,vii, 1860,264 (Cuba; 



crit.). — GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Albrecht, Journ. 



fiirOrn., 1861, 205 (Cuba). 

 Sylvicola jjetechia {not Motacilla petecJda JAnnimis) P>re\vek, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist, vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 

 Dendroica petechia Chapman, Bull. Am. Muh. N. H., iv, 1892, 310 (C'asilda, s. 



Cuba; crit.). 

 Dendroica gundlachi Baird, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 197 (Cuba; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.).— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 414 (Cuba). 

 Dendrceca gimdlacld Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 234. — Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 278, part (Cuba). 

 [Mniotilta:] gundlachi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3495. 

 [Dendruica petecJda'} var. gundlachi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. \m. 



Birds, i, 1874, 216, part (Cuba). 

 Dendru'ca petechia gmidlac]dCo\5v.ii, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote, part (Cuba). 

 [De/id/'ceca] petechia gundlachi Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8, part (Cuba). 

 Dendroica petechia gundlachi Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 30, part (Cuba); Birds W. I., 



1889, 44; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 118, part (Cuba; Isle of Pines). 

 'iD^ndroica petechia] (i. gundlachi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 



349, part (Cuba). 

 D\_endroic.a'\ petechia gundlachi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, Aug. 6, 1888, 



573, in text, part (Cuba). 

 \_Dendroica petechia'] d. cabana .Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Fijrh. Stottkh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr. ). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA AUREOLA (Gould). 

 GALAPAGOS YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. p. petechia., but olive-green of upper parts much 

 darker, and adult male with pileum alwa>\s rufous-chestnut, forming a 

 well-detined cap, sharply defined laterally against the yellow of the 

 superciliary region. 



Adult male. — Pileum uniform chestnut-rufous, sharply defined hxt- 

 erally; rest of upper parts plain deep yellowish olive-green, very 

 slightly, if at all, more yellowish on rump, the upper tail-cove rts even 

 darker than back; wings (except lesser coverts) dusky, the middle coverts 

 broadly tipped with yellow, the greater coverts and remiges edged with 

 yellow, these edgings broader and clearer yellow on greater coverts 

 and tertials, narrower and more or less tinged with olive-green on 

 secondaries and primaries; tail dusky, the four middle rectrices inclin- 

 ing to dark olive-green, the rest with inner w^ebs yellow, except at 



^ Eight specimens. 



