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g"^. Back without black streaks. 



h}. Above ash-gray, including sides of head, the 

 latter without distinct markings : under tail- 

 coverts and belly white. 



Adult male: Forehead and crown olive- 

 green ; rest of upper parts, including 

 sides of head and neck, plain ash-gray, 

 the wings with two dull grayish white 

 bands ; throat and chest pale yellow, this 

 bordered laterally by an interrupted se- 

 ries of black streaks, most distinct on 

 sides of breast ; rest of lower parts 

 white, shading into grayish on sides ; 

 length (skin) about 4.50, wing 2.30, tail 

 2.20, tarsus M. Hah. Cuba. 



D. pityophila (Gtjndl.). 

 Cuban Pine Warbler.^ 

 h^. Above olive-green or brownish (always olive- 

 green on rump and upper tail-coverts, at 

 least), the sides of head with distinct yellow 

 or whitish markings; under tail-coverts or 

 belly (or both) yellow. 

 i} Above plain olive-green, the back spotted 

 chestnut in adult male ; inner web of 

 outer tail-feather with more than termi- 

 nal third white, this with anterior out- 

 line very oblique. 

 Adult male : Superciliary stripe, spot 

 beneath eyes, and entire lower parts 

 rich gamboge-yellow ; streak across 

 lores, a broader one across cheeks, 

 from corner of mouth, and broad 

 streaks along sides, deep black. 

 Adult female : Essentially like male, 

 but much duller, the chestnut on 

 back obsolete or indistinct, yellow 

 paler, and black markings less dis- 

 tinct (sometimes replaced by dull 

 grayish ones). Young in first au- 

 tumn : Similar to adult female, but 

 tinged with ashy about head, where 

 the yellow markings sometimes in- 



^ Si/lvicola pityophila Gundl., Ann. X. Y. Lye. Oct. 1855, 160. Dendroica pityophila Baird, Review, i. 

 1865. 208. 



