7. DENDECECA. 277 



a. S ad. sk. S. Croix {A. ^ E. Newton). Sclater Collection. 



b. $ ad. sk. S. Thomas (Sioifi). Sclater Collection. 



c. Juv. sk. S. Bartholomew (C. Walton). Sclater Collection. 



3. Dendroeca petechia. 



The Yellow Red-poll, Edwards, Gleanings, v. p. 99, pi. 2.56. fio-. 1 



(1758). 

 Le Figuier a teste rouge de Pensilvanie, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 448 



(17G0). 

 Motacilla petechia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 334 (17G6, ex Edwards*); 



Less. Traite, i. p. 418 (1831). 

 Le Figiiier a tete rouge de Pensylvanie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 286 



(1778). 

 Red-headed Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 499 (1783). 

 Red-head Warbler, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 401 (1785). 

 Sylvia petechia. Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 535 (1790); Vieill. Ois. Amer. 



Sept. ii, p. 32, pi. 91 (1807). 

 Sylvicola sestiva {nee Gm.), Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 157 (1847). 

 Mniotilta petechia. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 241, no. 3496 (1869). 

 Dendroeca petechia, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 71 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 32 (1862) ; Scl. ^ Salv. No7nencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873) ; Coues, 



B. Color. Vail. p. 255 (1878) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 67 (1880) ; 



A. Sr E. Neivt. Handb. Jamaica, 1881, p. 106. 

 Dencb-oica petechia, March, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 292 ; Baird, 



Review Amer. B. p. 199 (1865) ; Baird, Breiver, ^ Ridyw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i. p. 210 (1874). 

 Dendroeca petechia, e. jamaicensis, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. 



Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 607. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, the long feathers 

 at the side of the rump with subtermiual marks of yellowish white ; 

 upper tail-coverts brighter yellow, with dusky-olive centres ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater series duskj- 

 blackish, edged with olive-yellow, brighter yellow along the outer 

 margins and tips of the feathers ; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow, brighter yellow on 

 the margins of the quills ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with 

 olive-yellow ; the outer feathers yellow for the greater part of the 

 inner web, of which the tip only is brown like the whole of the 

 outer web, this yellow colour slightly diminishing and the brown 

 somewhat extending towards the centre of the tail, the two middle 

 feathers alone having no yellow markings ; crown of head pale 

 orange-rufous, the base of the forehead, eyebrow, eyelid, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, sides of face, and entire under surface of body golden yellow, 



* Linnseus's name of petechia is now so universally adopted for the Jamaican 

 bird, that I use it without liesiiation. as there is no advantage in changing it : 

 but I very much doubt if Edwards's figure, the foundation of Mofacilht jwfechia, 

 L., from an unknown locality, was really drawn from a Jamaican .specimen ; 

 it represents rather, iu my opinion, D. aureola, or n ay be D. capitalis. Should 

 my view as to the incorrectness of the figure in the 'Gleanings' be upheld, an 

 appropriate name is available '"n Bendreeca jamaicensis, Sundev. ; but tlie de- 

 scriptions and plates of all these old specie t of Golden Warblers are so vague, 

 that it is doubtful whether any good Trould result from altering names gene- 

 rally accepted and understood by ornithologists on both sides of the Atlantic. 



