530 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED RTATPIS NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(45.8): exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 20.5-21 (20.8); middle toe, 11-12 



Liimature male. — Variously intermediate in coloration between the 

 adult male and adult female. 



Gulf coast of Mexico and Caribbean coast of Central America, from 

 Tamaulipas (Tampico) to Costa Rica (Puerto Limon). 



(?) Dendrceca vieilloti (not of Cassin) Sclatek, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 32, part 

 (Mexico) . 



Bendrceca vieilloti Salvin, Il)is, 1864, 880 (Half Moon Cay, British Honduras) ; 1866, 

 192 (do.). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 203, part (Caucnn, Yucatan). — 

 (?) Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 293 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 125, part (Caucnn, Sisal, 

 Progreso, and Celestin, Yucatan; Belize and Half Moon Cay, British Hon- 

 duras). — BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 441 (Silamand RioLagartos, 

 Yucatan). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 645, part (Progreso, 

 Yucatan; Half Moon Cay and Belize, British Honduras) . 



{Dendr(rca] vieilloti Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part. 



Dendroica vicillottii var. bryanti Ridgway, Amer. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 605 (Belize, 

 British Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



{Dendroica rieilloti] var. bryanti Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 218, part (Honduras; Yucatan) ; iii, 1874, 504. 



Dcndrcvca vieilloti bryanti Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 256, footnote. 



[Dendra'ca vieilloti.'] Subsp. a. Dendraxa bryanti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 

 1885, 284 (Nicaragua). 



Dendroica vieilloti bryanti Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 521, 524 

 (Puerto Limon, e. Costa Rica; crit. ). 



[Dendroica bryanti'] a. bryanti Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 350. 



D[endroica^ bryanti Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 495. 



Dendroica bryanti Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 210 (Progreso, Yucatan). 



Dendrceca bryanti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 645, part. 



DENDROICA BRYANTI CASTANEICEPS Ridgway. 

 MANGROVE WARBLER. 



Similar to D. h. hryantl., but averaging slightly darker above and 

 decidedly smaller. 



' Five specimens. 



The most southern specimens (from Puerto Limon, Costa Rica) do not show the 

 slightest approach in coloration to D. criihacliurides, but there appears to be a gradual 

 increase in size southward, average measurements, according to locality, being as 

 follows: 



