Cory 07i tJie Birds of tJte West Indies. A>7 



*^Male: — Upper parts olive, approaching to yellow on the rump; sides of 

 head marked with a band of orange, extending from the ear to the 

 beak, and meeting both on the forehead and on the chin. Wings 

 (quills and coverts) blackish, with yellowish edges. Tail blackish- 

 olive, with yellow edges ; the outermost two feathers on each side 

 have the greatest portion of the inner webs pale yellow. Un- 

 derparts pale yellow. The crown, rump, tertials, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts sparsely marked with undefined spots of pale 

 orange. 



^'■Feinale: — Nearly as in the male, but the deep orange is spread 

 over the whole cheeks, chin, throat, and breast. The head and back 

 are dusky gray, tinged with olive, and patched with the fulvous much 

 more largely, but in-egularly, as if laid upon the darker hue. 

 Length, 5 inches; expanse, 760; wing, 2.70; tail, 1.90; rictus 

 nearly. 60; tarsus, .90; middle toe, .50. Iris dark hazel ; feet horn- 

 color; beak pale horn; culmen and tip darker." (_Gosse, 1. c). 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Mr. Sharpe considers Z). eoa to be a hybrid between D. black' 

 burnicB and D. petechia or D. csstiva. The type specimens 

 are in tlie British Museum. 



Dendroica caerulescens (Gmel.). 



Motacilla ccerulescens Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 960 (17SS). 



Sylvia ccerulescens D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 63 



(1S40). 

 Sylvic ola pa7tnosa Goss'E, Bds. Jam. p. 162 (1S47). 

 Sylvicola canadensis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 162 (1S47). — Salle, P. Z. S. 



1S57, P- 231 (San Domingo). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



VII, p. no (1859) (Bahamas). — Brewer, Pr. Bost Soc. Nat. Hist. 



VII, p. 307 (1S60) (Cuba). 

 Rhimamfhus catiadensis GyKDL. J. f. O. 1855, p. 473; 1S61, p. 40S (Cuba). 

 Dcndrceca pannosa Ai^BRKCHT, ]. f. O. 1862, p. 193 (Jamaica). 

 Dendroica canadensis Gundl. J. f. O. 1S61, p. 396 (Cuba). — March, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 293 (1863) (Jamaica). 

 Dendrceca canadensis ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 70 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. 



f. O. 1S62, p. 193. 

 Dandroica ca;rulcscens Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 1S6 (1S64) (?). — Gundl. 



Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 233 (1865) ; il>. J. f. O. 1872, p. 413 



(Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 179 (1878) (Porto 



Rico). 

 Sylvicola {^Dendrceca') canadt nsis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, 



p. 91 (1867). 

 Dendroeca ccerulesccns Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 58 (1S80) ; ib. Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, VI, p. 151 (iSSi) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 26 



