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upper plumage is greeuisli-yellow ; the middle tail-feathers, the outer 

 ^^'ebs and ends of inner webs of the others are dark olive, blackish along 

 the shafts ; the margins are pale yellow 5 the inner webs are clear light 

 yellow, except at their ends ; wing-coverts black, all margined with pale 

 yellow ; tertials and outer webs of the other quills black, inner webs of 

 a lighter shade of black, having a grayish tinge ; all the quills are edged 

 with yellow, extending around the tips ; under wing-coverts clear light 

 yellow; sides of the head and of the throat light yellowish-rufous; all 

 tlie under x)arts clear gamboge-yellow, marked with narrow stripes of 

 dark rufous, except on the lower part of the abdomen and the under 

 tail-coverts ; upper mandible dark brown, the under plumbeous ; tarsi 

 and toes light hazel. 



The female is rather darker above, and is without the rufous crown 

 and longitudinal stripes belovf ; it has the under mandible whitish. 



This si^ecies most resembles var. riificapiUa, Gm., from St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, &c. Besides the striking feature of its black wings, it differs 

 in being smaller, the wing measui-ing but two and a quarter inches, 

 which in the other are two and a half; the tarsi and toes are more deli- 

 cately formed; the tarsus measures \^ in. against -ff in. in ritficapiUa ; 

 the rufous streaks below are narrower and darker; the color of the 

 crown is darker than in specimens from St. Thomas and Porto Eico, 

 and the yellow margins of the wing-coverts are not so wide. 



In my investigation of this species I find B. petechia of my Dominica 

 catalogue to be the same ; that island is the nearest south of Guade- 

 loupe, and not very distant. But at a further distance to the north 

 in Antigua and Barbuda, the species of Golden Warbler i^roves to be 

 var. ri(Jicapilla, Gm., as might be expected ; agreeing with specimens 

 from St. Thomas and Porto Eico, considered to be the form entitled to 

 that appellation. 



In Martinique is found a very different form, viz., D. rvjigida, Baird; 

 in Barbadoes still another, B. capifalis, Lawr. 



From St. Vincent and Grenada Mr. Ober sent no Golden Warblers. 



8. Dendroeca plumbea, Lawr. 



"Length, ^, 5 J in.; alar extent, 7i; wing, 2 J. 

 ''Length, 9, 5J in.; alar extent, 7; wing, 2^." 



9. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). 



'' Length, ^ , 5 J in. ; alar extent, 7i ; wing, 2^. 

 "Length, $, 5 J in.; alar extent, 7^; wing, 2f." 



Fam. YIREONID^. 



10. Virecsylvia calidris var. dominicana, LaAvr. 



" ' Peow-j)eow.' 



"Length, ^, 6J in.; alar extent. Of; wing, 3|. 

 "Length, 9, C^ in.; alar extent. Of; wing, 3^. 



" Known everywhere by its cry ; frequenting chiefly trees bearing 

 small seeds." 



