676 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



GEOTHLYPIS MAYNARDI Bangs. 

 MA.YNARD'S YELLOW-THROAT. 



Similar to G. rostrata, but wing and tail longer, and coloration much 

 brighter. Adult male with back, scapulars, rump, etc., bright yellow- 

 ish olive-green instead of grajdsh olive-green, the whitish band behind 

 the black "mask" faintly tinged with yellow, especially on lateral 

 portion; under parts entirely yellow, the yellow brighter than in G. 

 rostrafa. Adult female with back, etc., yellowish olive-green (the 

 pileum and hindneck being colored as in G. rostrata)^ and with under 

 parts almost wholly bright yellow, onl}^ the lower abdomen being 

 whitish. 



Adult male.—ljength. (skins), 130-1-1:7.3 (13S.'7); wing, 61.2-66.5 

 {(\i.S); tail, .56.5-62.5 (59.7); exposed culmen, 14.5-16 (15.5); depth of 

 bill at base, 4.5-5.5 (4.9); tarsus, 22.5-23.9 (23); middle toe, 14-15.2 

 (14.8).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 130-137 (133.2); wing, 61-62 (61.5); 

 tail, 56-59 (56.9); exposed culmen, 14.5; tarsus, 21.5-23 (22.2); middle 

 toe, 14-15 (14.4)." 



Island of New Providence, Bahamas. 



Geothhjpis maynardi Bangs, Auk, xvii, July, 19Q0, 290 (Nassau, New Providence 

 Island, Bahamas; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



GEOTHLYPIS TANNERI Ridgway. 

 TANNEB'S YELLOW-THROAT. 



Similar to G. maynardi, but wing and tail longer. Adult male with 

 crown, occiput, and hindneck olive-green, becoming paler and tinged 

 with gray and yellow next to posterior border of black on forehead 

 (instead of gray, becoming broadly pale yellowish gray anteriorly), 

 and the olive-green of back, etc., duller. Adult female with yellow of 

 throat and chest deeper than on that of G. maynardi, but the abdomen 

 and flanks apparently much lighter in color. 



Adult 7nale. — Length (skin), 139.7; wing, 67.3; tail, 61; exposed 

 culmen, 15.5; depth of bill at base, 4.8; tarsus, 22.6; middle toe, 14.7.* 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 137.2; wing. 58.9; tail, 55.9; exposed 

 culmen, 15.2; depth of bill at base, 4.6; tarsus, 22.1; middle toe, 15.* 



Island of Abaco, Bahamas (also Great Bahama Island?). 



Geothlypis tanneri Ridgway, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 335 (Abaco Island, Bahamas; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.); viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco).— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 157 (Abaco); 



viii, 1891, 298 (do.); Birds W. I., 1889, 287; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 119, 



127 (Great Bahama I.; Abaco). 

 G\_eothlypis'] tanneri Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 525. 

 Geothlypis rostratus tanneri Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 350 (Great Bahama; Abaco). 



^ Seventeen specimens. ^ One specimen. 



* Four specimens. 



