620 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CATHAROPEZA BISHOPI (Lawrence). 

 BISHOP'S WARBLER. 



Adult male. — Pileuni, sides of head, hindneck, and rest of upper 

 parts l)lack, liecoming- g-mduall}^ less intense posteriorly, the rum}), 

 tail, etc., beino- slate-black; a ])road orl)ital ring- of white; a supraloral 

 spot or streak of grayish white; malar apex, chin, and lower throat 

 white, or grayish white, the feathers slate color or slate-gra}" beneath 

 the surface; feathers on median line of upper throat tipped with w^hite; 

 chest dusky slate or slate-blackish; sides and flanks brownish slate- 

 gray or mouse gray, separated from the darker liroad chest-band by a 

 narrow band of white; median portion of breast and abdomen white, 

 the feathers slate-gray beneath the surface; under tail-coverts with 

 basal half slate-g-ray, terminal half white; under wing-coverts plain 

 slate-gray; inner webs of three outermost rectrices with a small ter- 

 minal triangular spot of white, largest on the exterior rectrix; bill 

 black; legs and feet pale yellowish brown (flesh color in life?); length 

 (skin), 137.2;' wing, 70.1; tail, 53.8; exposed culmen, 13.2; tarsus, 23.1.^ 



J.i«/Z2! /t^wM/<^— Scarcely distinguishable from the adult male, but 

 upper parts of ))ody, wings, and tail more sooty (nearly deep clove 

 brown), and terminal spots of under tail-coverts tinged with l)rownish 

 bufl"; length (skin), 118.6;^ wing, 66.8; tail, 52.6; exposed culmen, 12.7; 

 tarsus, 22.6.' 



Lii mature {sexes alike). — Above plain deep olive, the remiges and 

 rectrices more dusky, inclining to clove l)rown; a lighter supraloral 

 spot; two lateral rectrices with small terminal white spots, as in 

 adults; an incomplete whitish orbital ring; sides of throat olive, the 

 median portion of throat mixed olive and whitish; lower throat dull 

 brownish butt' or pale' wood brownish; chest, sides, and flanks light 

 olive; median portion of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull 

 brownish butt' or wood brown; bill and feet as in adults. 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 



Leucopeza bishopi Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, no. 5, .Tune, 1878, 151 (St. 



Vincent, W. I.; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 189 



(notes, etc.), 486.— Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 228, 638. 

 Catharopeza bishopi Sclater, Ibis, 4th ser., iv, Jan., 1880, 73, pi. 1.— Lister, Ibis, 



1880, 40.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 41; Birds W. I., 1889, 55; Cat. W. I. Birds, 



1892, 18, 119, 134. 

 [Catharopeza] bishopi Cory , List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 



^ Length before skinning, 146; extent of -wi'igs, 215.9. (Ober. ) 



^ One specimen. 



* Length before skinning, 139.7; extent of wings, 203.2. (Ober.) 



