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brown; wings dark brown, edged with yellow; tail-feathers l)rown, 

 heavily marked with yellow on the inner webs and faintly edged with 

 it on the outer. 



''Length, 120.6; wing, 59.7; tail, 50.8; tarsus, 20.8; bill, 7.6."' 

 (Cory.) 



St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea. 



Dendroica flavida Cory, Descr. Six New Sp. Birds from Old Providence and St. 

 Andrews, May 27, 1.S87, 3; Auk, iv, July, 1887, 179 (St. Andrews Island, 

 Caribbean Sea; coll. C. B. Cbry). 



DENDROICA RUFICAPILLA RUFOPILEATA Ridgway. 

 CURAQAO YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to I), r. rufaip/Ua, but forehead and crown uniform chest- 

 nut, forming a sharply defined oval patch, the adult female with under 

 parts paler yellow. 



Adult iiiah'. — Forehead and crown uniform rufous-chestnut, forming 

 a sharply defined oval patch; rest of upper parts plain yellowish olive- 

 green, becoming decidedly yellowish on lower rump, the longer upper 

 tail-coverts darker olive-green, with yellowish edges; wings (except 

 lesser coverts) dusky, the middle coverts broadly tipped with yellow, the 

 greater coverts and tertials 1)roadly edged with yellow, the secondaries 

 tiiid primaries more narrowly edged with yellowish olive-green ; rectrices 

 dusky, edged with yellowish olive-green, the inner webs of four outer- 

 most chiefly yellow; sides of head (including superciliary stripe) and 

 under parts rich, pure gamboge or lemon yellow, the chest broadly 

 streaked with chestnut-rufous, the sides and flanks sometimes more 

 narrowly streaked with the same; maxilla black, with paler tomia; 

 mandible grayish dusky (bluish gray in life^; irif^ l)rown; legs and 

 feet horn brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 112-115 (111.2); 

 wing, 56-60 (57.5); tail, 11-17 (15.2); exposed culmen, 9-11 (10.5); 

 tarsus, 18-19 (18.5); middle toe, 10-12 (11).' 



Adult female.^ Ahoy G plain yellowish olive-green, including pileum, 

 the wings and tail as in adult male; sides of head and under parts 

 yellow, paler and duller than in adult male, and without streaks or 

 else with mere traces of them on chest; length (skins), 102-112 (108.7); 

 wing, 53-57 (51.6); tail, 11-17 (13); exposed culmen, 9-11 (10); tarsus, 

 16-19 (18); middle toe, 10.^ 



Island of Curasao, southern Caribbean Sea. 



Dendroica nifopileata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., vii, July 29, 1884, 173 

 (Curagao, Dutch West Indies; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Berlepsch, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1892, 76 (Curasao) .—Peters, Journ. fiirOrn., 1892, 116 (Curasao). 



^ Measurements converted from inches and tenths. 

 ^ Four specimens. 

 'Three specimens. 



