480 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



6\ Black loral streak narrower than the white above it ; cheeks white almost 

 up to the eye ; white of throat extended over almost whole of chest, 

 and yellow of breast not extended over flanks, which are pale grayish, 

 sometimes faintly tinged with yellow ; rump usually pure gamboge-yel- 

 low; lower tail-coverts and anal region pure white ; length about 4.25- 

 4.75, wing 2.30-2.65, tail 1.65-1.95, exposed culmen .55-65, tarsus .75-.80. 

 Eggs .67 X -50. Hab. Bahamas, Florida Keys, and portions of adjacent 

 coast of southern Florida, north to Charlotte Harbor. 



635. C. bahamensis Eeich. Bahama Honey Creeper. 

 b^. Black loral streak as wide as or wider than white above it, and continued 

 backward broadly beneath eye ; white of throat extended over only 

 upper part of chest; yellow of breast continued backward over flanks, 

 and even tingeing anal region and lower tail-coverts ; yellow of rump 

 usually perceptibly tinged with olive, and upper parts in general aver- 

 aging somewhat darker; dimensions essentially the same as in C. baha- 

 mensis. Hab. Cozumel Island, coast of Yucatan. 



C. caboti Baird. Cozumel Honey Creeper.^ 

 al Adult with chin, throat, and malar region deep ash-gray ; back, scapulars, etc., 

 dull grayish olive or smoky slate, in marked contrast with black of top of 

 head; rump yellowish olive. Young : Chin, throat, etc., dull light grayish 

 yellow, scarcely diff'erent from color of other lower jDarts; upper parts dull 

 smoky olive. 



White spot at base of quills much reduced in size ; rump yellowish olive- 

 green, or olive-yellow; entire lower parts posterior to throat oil-yellow, 

 becoming paler and much duller on flanks and under tail-coverts ; length 

 (skins) about 3.60-3.75, wing 2.05-2.30, tail 1.35-1.55. Hab. Middle 

 America, from eastern Mexico to Chiriqui. 



C. mexicana Scl. Mexican Honey Creeper.* 



Family MNIOTILTID^E.— The Wood Warblers. (Page 322.) 



Genera. 



Gape with very small bristles, or none. 



¥. Hind-toe, with claw, as long as naked portion of tarsus in front ; claw of 

 middle toe on the same line, vertically, with the toe. 



Plumage striped with black and white, the latter prevailing on lower 



parts Mniotilta. (Page 483.) 



6". Hind-toe, with claw, much shorter than naked portion of tarsus, in front ; 

 claw of middle toe (looking from above) set obliquely to the axis of the toe. 

 c\ Middle toe, with claw, as long as or longer than tarsus, in front, the 

 wing without white bands or other markings. 



1 Certhiola ccibofi "Baird, MS." Finsch, Verb, der K. K. Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1871, 790. 

 * Certhiola mexicana ScL., P. Z. S. 1856, 286. 



