276 irNTOTrLTTD^. 



Figuier a tete rousse, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 306 (1778). 



Bloody-aide Warbler, Lath. Gen. Si/u. ii. pt. 2, p. 489 (1783). 



Motacilla rulicapilla, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 971 (1788). 



Sylvia ruficapilla, Lath. Lnd. Oni. ii. p. 540 (17U0). 



Dendroeca sestiva (nee Gm.), A. ^- £. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 143. 



Dendroica petechia (nee L.), Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1860, 



pp. 192, 376. 

 Dendroica, sp., Baird, Review Anier. B. p. '201 (186-5). 

 Mniotilta, sp., Gray, Hand-l. B. i.p. 241, no. 3497 (1869). 

 Dendruica petechia, a. bartholemica, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. 



Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 607. 

 Dendroeca petechia, /3. cruciana, Sundev. t. c. p. 608. 

 Dendroeca petechia, var. rulicapilla, Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridqw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i. p. 217 (1874); Lawr. Proc. U.S. Natl Mus. i. 



pp. 454, 486 (1879). 

 Dendi'oeca petechia rulicapilla, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 256 (1878). 



Adult male (S. Croix, May 6 ; A. & E. Newton). General colour 

 above clear olive-yellow, brighter and more golden yellow on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, externally broadly edged with 

 bright golden yellow, so broad as to hide the blackish bases to a 

 great extent; bastard-wing blackish, more narrowly edged with 

 golden yellow ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with 

 olive-yellow, the quills more broadly with bright golden yellow, espe- 

 cially clear on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers dusky olive- 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow, the outer feathers yellow on the 

 inner web, olive-brown on the outer one and across the tip of the 

 inner one, the yellow decreasing and the brown increasing towards 

 the centre of the tail ; crown of head like the back, but golden 

 yellow towards the forehead, which, with the crown, is tinged with 

 light chestnut or bay ; lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, 

 and cheeks bright golden yellow ; under surface of body bright 

 golden yellow, striped with deep chestnut, these streaks commencing 

 on the throat, becoming broader on the fore neck, breast, and sides 

 of the body, and being indicated as narrow shaft-lines on the under 

 tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts golden yellow ; 

 quills dusky below, golden yellow along the inner web. Total 

 length 4"8 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2-5, tail 2"05, tarsus 0-8. 



A male from S. Croix (Newton), killed in July, and now in the 

 Salvin-aud-Godraan collection, agrees with the bird described, and, 

 like it, has the rufous streaks on the throat and under tail-coverts. 

 It has yet to be shown that the species ever gets such a distinct 

 rufous crown as D. petechia assumes. The latter does not seem 

 to get the rufous streaks on the throat, but otherwise it so closely 

 resembles D. ruficajiilla that, when not in fuU plumage, the Jamaican 

 bird can scarcely be distinguished from the specimens from S. Croix, 

 as is shown by a specimen in the Salvin-and-Godman collection 

 (Spanishtown, Jamaica, Aug, ; W. T. Marsh). 



D. ruficapilla is, in fact, a large race of D. a'stiva ; but the latter bird 

 never has any rufous streaks on the throat or under tail-coverts. 



Hah. West Indies : islands of S. Croix, S. Thomas, S. Bartho- 

 lomew, Porto Eico, Antigua, Barbuda. 



