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on back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail more 

 decidedly olive-green; under parts light lemon or canarj^ yellow, 

 becoming decidedly paler (sometimes yellowish white) on lower abdo- 

 men and anal region and changing to pale yellowish gray or buffy 

 olive on flanks and posterior portion of sides; longer under tail-coverts, 

 with concealed portion largely pale yellowish olive; maxilla dark 

 brown or brownish black, with paler tomia; mandible pale brownish 

 (in dried skins), darker terminally ; ^ iris brown ; legs and feet pale brown 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 125-146 (137.3); wing, 60-65.5 (62.4); 

 tail, 55-61.5 (58.2); exposed culmen, 15-17.3 (15.7); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 22-23.6 (22.8); middle toe, 11-15.2 

 (14.6).^ 



Adult female in .y)rin(/. — Pileum and hindneck plain light grayish 

 brown (hair brown), the forehead more grayish, the anterior portion 

 of crown faintly tinged with warmer pale brown; rest of upper parts 

 plain gra3nsh olive-green, brighter on wings and tail, where sometimes 

 inclining to yellowish olive-green; sides of head and neck similar to 

 pileum and hindneck, but slightly paler, especially on suborbital region 

 and lower portion of auricular region, which are narrowly and indis- 

 tinctly streaked with paler; malar region pale buffy grayish; chin, 

 throat, and chest pale yellow (nearly straw yellow), the breast also 

 sometimes pale yellow; rest of under parts dull white, becoming pale 

 grayish olive or buffy olive on sides and flanks; under tail-coverts 

 pale j^ellow; bill, legs, and feet as in adult male, but the first rather 

 paler; length (skins), 130-132 (131.4); wing, 57.5-59 (58.2); tail, 53- 

 55.9 (54.3); exposed culmen, 15-15.5 (15.2); tarsus, 21.8-22.5 (22.3); 

 middle toe, 14-14.5 (14.3).'' 



Island of New Providence, Bahamas. 



Geothlypis rostratus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, Mar., 1867, 67 (Nassau, 

 New Providence Island, Bahamas; tyiie now in coll. U. S. Nat. Miis. ). — Cory, 

 Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 73; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 156, part (New Providence). 



{^Geothlypis} rcMratus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 9. 



Geothlypis rostrata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 355. — Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 43; Birds, W. I., 1889, 57; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892 18 119, 127, part 

 (New Providence Island). — Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 335 (New Provi- 

 dence). — Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 290 (crit. ; descr. ). 



G^eothlypis] rostrata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 524. 



[_Trichat<'] rostrata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 242, no. 3513. 



{Geothlypis trichasi (i. ros/roto Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 458. 



Geothlypis trichas var. rostrata Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci. iv, Dec. 1872, 458. 



{Geothlypis trichas'] var. ros^rato Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 296. 



^ Bill almost wholly blackish in midsummer. 

 ^ Fifteen specimens. 

 ' Three specimens. 



