c,^ Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



and extending to the nostril, just touching the lower mandible, 

 the black bordered posteriorly with pearl gray, becoming deeper 

 gray upon the crown; underparts bright yellow, the flanks shaded 

 with olive; quills brown, with the outer webs olive green; third 

 primary longest. 



Fcjnale: — The black band wanting; plumage slightly paler; a 

 pale ash-colored line from over the eye to sides of the neck; crown 

 showing a trace of brown ; otherwise resembling the male. 



Length, 5.50; wing, 2.70; tail, 2.36; tarsus, .92; bill, .72. 



Habitat. New Providence, Bahama Islands. 

 Geothlypis trichas (Linn.). 



Turdus trichas Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). 



Sylvia trichas D'Okb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 67 (1840) 

 (Cuba). 



Trichas marylandica Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 14S (1S47). — Bryant, Pr. Best. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 110 (1S59) (Bahamas). 



Trichas niarilandica Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 307 (1S60) 

 (Cuba). 



Geothlypis trichas Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 472; ib. 1861, p. 326; ib. 1S72, 

 p. 417; ib. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 236 (1S65) (Cuba). — ScL. 

 P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 70 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62, p. 192 

 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 293 (Ja- 

 maica).— Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 187 (1S78) 

 (Porto Rico).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 72 (iSSo); ib. Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI, p. 151 (1881) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 36 

 (1S85) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1885).- A. & E. Newton, Ilandb. 

 Jam. p. 106 (1S81). 



Geothlypis restricta Mavnard, Am. Ex. and Mart. Dec. 15, 1886. 



Common in winter in the Bahama Islands and Greater Antilles. 

 Genus Microligea Cory. 



Microligea CoRY, Auk, I, p. 290 (1S84). 



Microligea palustris Cory. 



Ligea falustris Cory, Auk, I, p. i (1884) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, 

 p. 38 (18S5).— Siiarpe, Cat. Bds Brit. Mus. X, p. 349 (1885). 



Microligea palustris Cory, Auk, I, p. 290 (1S84) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 9 

 (1885). 



