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chestnut; upper parts (except piloum, wings, and tail) plain deep 

 olive-green,^ slightly more j^ellowish on rump, the upper tail-coverts 

 sometimes indistinctly edged with yellowish; wings (except lesser 

 coverts) dull l)lack, the middle and greater coverts rather narrowly 

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

 or yellowish olive-green; middle pair of rectrices dusky, edged on 

 outer web with olive-green, on inner with pale yellow; remaining 

 rectrices with inner webs mostly yellow; maxilla blackish, mandible 

 grayish dusk}^ (bluish gray in life?); legs and feet pale brownish (in 

 dried skins); length (skins), 112-120 (116); wing, 56-57 (56.5); tail, 

 40.5-43 (41.7); exposed culmen, 11-12(11.5); tarsus, 17-19(18); middle 

 toe, 11. '^ 



Young {fenialef), ^iirst jfJuiixuje. — Above plain, rather dark olive- 

 green; wings dusky, with dull olive-green edgings to greater coverts 

 and remiges, the middle coverts tipped with the same; under parts 

 pale dull yellow, shaded lateral 1}^ with olive, the chest indistinctly ))ut 

 broadly streaked with pale rusty. 



Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. 



Sylvia ruficapilla (not Motadlla ruficapilla Gmelin) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat., xi, 1817, 228; Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 442, not of p. 440 (Martinique). 

 Dendroica rufigula Baird, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 204 (locality unknown; 



coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 32 (Martinique); 1887, 



95 (do.); Birds W. I., 1889, 46; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 133.— 



RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, .350 (Martinique). 

 Dcndrceca rnfigida Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 353 (Martinique; 



crit.).— Cory, List Birds W. L, 1885, 8.— Sjiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., x, 



1885, 285, 645, excl. syn. part (Martinique). 

 Dendrceca viellloti rufigula (not Dendroica vieilloii var. rufigula Baikd, Brewer, 



and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 217) Coues, Birds Col. Val., 



1878, 256, footnote, part. 

 lihdotilta'] rufigula Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3498 (Martinique). 

 Bendrmca vicilloti (not of Cassin) .Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 



1880, 125, part (in synonymy). 



DENDROICA ERITHACHORIDES Baird. 

 PANAMA YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to I>. I'drfigxda^ })ut decidedly larger, with smaller ]>ill; much 

 lighter and more yellowish olive-green above, and under parts much 

 more J)roadiy streaked with chestnut-rufous. 



Adult male. — Pileum uniform rich rufous-chestnut (exactly as in 

 J). rufiguld)\ rest of head similar Init slightly paler (intermediate 

 between orange-rufous and cinnamon-rufous); under parts, posterior 

 to throat, rich gamboge or lemon yellow, conspicuously streaked 

 except on abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, with the color 

 of the throat, the streaks broadest on chest where confluent with the 



^Much darker than in B. erithachorides and allied continental forms. 

 ^ Two specimens. 



