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Female: — Similar to the male, but somewhat paler, and showing 

 less jellow on the tail. 



Length (skin), 4.8; wing, 2.45; tail, 2.15; tarsus, .83. 

 Habitat. Cuba. Accidental in tlie Bahama Islands. 



Dendroica petechia ruficapilla. 



Motacilla rnficafilla Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 971 (17S8). 



Sylvicola ruficapill:: Bp. Consp. I, p. 307 (1850). 



Dendroica rujicafilla Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 201 (1864). 



Dendroeca ruficapilla Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 240 (1869). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 275 (1885). 

 Dendroica petechia var. ruficapilla Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. I, p. 217 (1874). 

 Dendroeca petechia var. ruficapilla Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S6 



(187S). 

 Dendroeca petechia ruficapilla Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 8 (1885). 



Length, 4.75; w-ing, 2.6; tail, 2.10; tarsus, .82. 



This form approaches very closely to D. petechia^ but lacks 

 the distinct rufous crown. Throat streaked heavily ; the under 

 tail-coverts are also streaked ; otherwise like D. petechia. 



Habitat. Barbuda, Antigua, Porto Rico, and St. Thomas. 



Dendroica petechia melanoptera. 



Dendroeca petechia var. melanoptera Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. ISIus. I, p. 



453 (1878). 

 Dendroeca petechia melanoptera Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 8 (1885). 

 Dendroeca melanoptera Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 279 (18S5). 



Length, 4.50; wing, 2.30; tail, 1.85; tarsus, .69. 



This form resembles petechia rtificapilla., as would be ex- 

 pected, but varies in having the vs'ing-coverts black, and it is 

 somewhat smaller in size ; the rufous streaks are narrower and 

 darker. The female lacks the rufous crown and stripes on the 

 under surface. 



Habitat. Guadeloupe and Dominica. 



Dendroica capitalis Lawr. 



Dendroeca petechia c. barbadcnsis Slnd. Ocfv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. 



1869, p. 608. 

 Dendroeca capitalis Lawr. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i86S, p. 359.— Gray, 



Handl. Bds. HI, Index, p. 202 (1871).— CouEs, Key N. Am. Bds. p. 



