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h. Outer tail-feather for the most part white, 

 the region of the shaft dusky brown, widen- 

 ing out towards the end of inner web, the 

 outer web for the most pai't brown. 

 c'. Throat white. 

 /". Head olive-yellow ; ear-coverts white 

 or ashy ; no black streaks on the sides 

 of the body ; inner secondaries edged 

 with olive-yellow. 

 i'". Crown olive-yellow, contrasting with 

 the back, which is olive-yeUow 

 broadly streaked with black ; sides 

 of breast chestnut. 

 e*. Lores, fore part of cheeks, and a 

 stripe along the upper ear-coverts 

 black ; chestnut stripe extending 

 from the sides of the throat down 

 the sides of the breast to the 



flanks pennsylvanica (S ad., 



d*. Lores, anterior cheeks, and stripe [p. 286. 



on the ear-coverts dusky ; chest- 

 nut streak extending ifrom the 

 sides of the throat to the sides of 



the upper breast, or breast with a [p. 287. 



few lateral streaks of chestnut . . pennsylvanica 2 ad., 



Dendrceca montana, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 613 ; 

 Cones, B. Color. Vail. p. 237 (1878) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 no. 21, p. 18 (1881). 



This species is four inches and three quarters in length; the upper parts a 

 rich yellow-olive : front, cheeks, and chin yellow, also the sides of the neck ; 

 breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky ; vent plain pale 

 yellow ; wings black, first and second row of coverts broadly tipt with pale 

 yellowish white ; tertials the same ; the rest of the quills edged with whitish ; 

 tail black, handsomely I'ounded, edged with pale olive ; the two exterior 

 feathers, on each side, white on the inner vaues from the middle to the tips, and 

 edged on the outer side with white ; bill dark brown ; legs and feet purple- 

 brown ; soles yellow ; eye dark hazel. (Wihon.) 



Hub. Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania. 



The identification of this species has puzzled ornithologists since the time of 

 Wilson. Dr. Coues suggests that it may be the young of Dendrceca mrens (cf. 

 Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 308, 1884). 



3. Dendrceca eoa. 



Sylvicola-eoa, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 158 (1847); id. III. B. Jam. pi. 34 



(1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 309 (1850). 

 Mniotilta eoa, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848). 

 Dendroica eoa, Baird, Eev. Amer. B. p. 195 (1865); Baird, Bretvcr, cf- 



Bidffw. Hist N. Amer. B. i. p. 218 (1874). 

 Dendrceca eoa, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. iii. p. 609 

 (1869) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 256 (1878). 

 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 ; quills and coverts blackish, with yel- 

 lowish edges ; tail blackish olive, with yellow edges ; the outermost two feathers, 

 on each side, having the greatest portion of the inner webs pale yellow ; under- 

 parts pale yellow ; crown, rump, tertials, belly, and under tail-coverts sparsely 



