678 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



gamboge or canary Aellow less distinct across the crown, where shad- 

 ing graduall}' into the grayish olive-green of hinder crown, occiput, 

 and hindneck, this again not conspicuously different from the bright 

 olive-green of remaining upper parts; under parts entirel}' rich lemon 

 or gamboge yellow, shaded with olive or inclining to yellowish olive- 

 green on sides and flanks; maxilla brownish black, mandible paler, 

 more horn-colored, especialh" toward base; legs and feet pale brownish 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 137; wing, 60-65 (62.5); tail, 5S.5-59 

 (58.7); exposed culmen, 16-16.5 (16.3); tarsus, 21.5-22.5 (22); middle 

 toe, 14.5-15 (14.7).' 



Adult female. — Forehead and superciliary region (broadly) olive- 

 yellow; crown, occiput, and hindneck deep olive-gray or grayish 

 olive; terminal half of auricular region gra}', slightly tinged with olive; 

 anterior portion of auricular region and suVjorbital region olive-j'^ellow, 

 the latter mottled with olive-grayish; lores olive-grayish; rest of 

 plumage as in adult male; length (skin), 141.8; wing, 61; tail, 57.1; 

 exposed culmen, 15.5; tarsus, 22.9; middle toe, 13.2.^ 



J^leuthera Island, Bahamas. 



Geothlypis coryi Ridgw.ay, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 334 (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); viii, 1891, 336 (do.)-— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 157 

 (Eleuthera) ; viii, 1891, 351 (do.); Birds W. I., 1889, 287; Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 18, 119, 126, 127, 156. 



G{_eothlypis] coryi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 525. 



GEOTHLYPIS FLAVIDA Ridgway. 

 lUTEOTJS YELLOW-THROAT. 



Very similar in coloration to (J. coryi, but wing and tail longer and 

 bill shorter, the olive-green of upper parts much more 3"ellowish, crown 

 more tinged with gray, and without yellow next to edge of black frontal 

 patch, the latter broader (extending 10 to 11 mm. from frontal antife. 

 Somewhat like G. maynai'di.^ but much more bright colored; adult 

 male with the occiput and hindneck yellowish olive-green, instead of 

 gray, becoming paler and grayer on crown, immediately behind the 

 black of forehead; supra-auricular region and sides of neck yellow; 

 general c-olor of upper parts much brighter and more yellowish olive- 

 green, and yellow of under parts brighter, especially on posterior 

 portions; length (skins), 143-147 (145); wing, 65.3-67 (66.1); tail, 

 60.4-62 (61.2); exposed culmen, 14-15.5 (14.7); depth of bill at base, 

 4.8-5 (4.9); tarsus, 22-23.1 (22.5); middle toe, 15-15.2 (15.1).^ 



Island of New Providence, Bahamas.^ 



Goethly pis coryi (not of Ridgway) Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900,291 (New Providence 

 Island, Bahamas). 



^ Two specimens. 

 - One specimen. 



■'Type in collection of G. S. Miller, jr. (no. 3896, Nassau, New Providence Island, 

 Bahamas, May 30, 1889; collected by V. .T. ^hiynanl.) 



