BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 565 



ix, 1868, 94 (Grecia, Barranca, and Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878,54,48(3 (Dominica, Lesser Antilles) ; viii, 1885,622 

 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1870, 182 

 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Veragua). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., ii, 1871, 

 269 (e. Florida, Mar.).— Coue.s, Check List, 1873, no. 71; 2d ed.,1882, no. 

 112; Birds N. W., 1874, 54; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 240.— Newton, Man. Nat. 

 Hist. Greenl., 1875, 97 (Julianshaab, 1 spec. 1853) .— Cordeaux, Ibis, 1875, 180 

 (Heligoland, Oct. 1, 1858).- Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4,1876, 

 15 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca, Dec, Jan.). — Gundlach, Orn. Cuba, 1876, 

 64. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 57 (descr. young); Proc Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xxii, 1883, 371 (Anticosti I. and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 

 summer). — Newton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879,552 (Jamaica). — Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 107. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1881,137 (San Geronimo, Tactic, and Coban, Guatemala, etc). — 

 Nutting, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 494 (Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica). — 

 Brown (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 36 (Boerne, s. w. Texas, 

 Mar.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 297, 647 (n. Yucatan; 

 Irazu district, Costa Rica, etc. ) . 



Dendroeca virenn Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Fijrh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 611 

 (monogr. ). 



[Dendrceca'] virens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 97. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873,9.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885,8. 



D[endr(eca'] vlrois Nklson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876,100,152 (n. e. Illinois, a 

 few breeding). — Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 298. 



DENDROICA CHRYSOPARIA Sclater and Salvin. 

 GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER. 



Adxdt male in spring and summer. — Pileum, hindneck, back, scapu- 

 lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform black, usuall}" slig-htly 

 intermixed on rump with olive-green or gray, sometimes (in 3 ounger 

 individuals?) the rump mostly or even wholly olive-green and the 

 scapulars and interscapulars margined with olive-green;^ center of 

 forehead usually with a yellow spot or streak; sides of head and neck, 

 including whole malar region, auricular region (except upper margin), 

 and a broad superciliary stripe, clear rich lemon yellow, relieved by a 

 postocular streak of black (widening into a spot behind auricular 

 region) and a spot or line of black immediately in front of eye; chin, 

 throat, upper chest, and sides of breast uniform black; rest of under 

 parts white (without yellow tinge), the sides and flanks heavily streaked 

 with black; wings and tail black, with narrow light gray edgings, the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming 

 two distinct bands across wing; three outermost rectrices with inner 

 webs mostly white, the fourth with a white spot near tip, the three 

 outermost with outer webs edged with white toward base. 



^ Some spring males (perhaps birds of the preceding year) have the pileum uniform 

 black only laterally, the feathers of the median portion being more or less broadly 

 edged or margined with olive-green. 



