7. DENDE(ECA. 279 



p. 192 ; Lam: Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 264 (1860) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 



1861, p. 326. 

 Dendroica gundlachi, Baird, Reviexo Amer. B. p. 197 (1865). 

 IMniotilta gundlachi, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 241, no. 3495 (1869). 

 Dendroeca petechia, d. cubana, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 



Stockh. 1869, p. 608. 

 Dendroica petechia, var. giindlachi, Baird, Breioer, 8f Ridgw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i. p. 216 (1874) ; Cory, B. Ba/uwias, p. 58 (1880). 

 Dendroeca petechia gundlachi, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 255 (1878). 



Adult male. Upper parts dark yellowish green, scarcely white on 

 the rump, the shaft of the feathers perhaps more dusky ; top of the 

 head more and more yellowish to the bill, especially towards the 

 bases of the feathers, the central portions of the feathers tinged 

 with reddish * ; underparts bright yellow, the jugulum and sides 

 streaked with reddish ; wing-feathers dark brown ; the quills and 

 coverts edged externally with the dull olive of the back, which 

 scarcely becomes more yellow on the margin of the coverts, as in 

 D. petecJiia ; the marginal colour of the primaries towards their ends 

 passing into grey : the alula uniform brown ; the quills margined 

 internally, but not sharjily, with yellowish, which is almost a dull 

 white towards the ends viewed from above. The upper surfaces of 

 the tail-feathers are dark greenish brown, margined externally like 

 the rump ; the outer four feathers have rather poorly defined yellow 

 patches on their inner webs towards the end, which, however, on 

 the outer feather does not quite reach the shaft, and is separated on 

 the others by a greater and greater interval of the ground-colour ; 

 the fifth has the inner margin above yeUow ; the bill is plumbeous, 

 with pale edges ; the feet apparently greenish. Total length 4*9 

 inches, wing 2-5, tail 2*2, tarsus 0-85. (Baird.) 



A female bird is quite similar, but with the yeUow patches on the 

 tail still more restricted. A young bird with much worn plumage 

 is ashy above, with patches of olive-green ; the underparts creamy 

 white, strongly tinged with yellow across the breast and on crissum ; 

 the yeUow patches of the tail much restricted. A young male, 

 further advauced, has the adidt plumage, with only a few patches 

 of light ashy on the nape and sides of neck and some whitish spots 

 on the chin. (Baird.) 



Hah. Cuba ; Bahamas, not seen north of Long Island ( Cory). 



5. DendroBca melanoptera. 



Dendroeca petecliia, Laivr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. i. pp. 54 (1878), 



232, 239 (1879). 

 Dendrceca petechia, var. melanoptera, La%vr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. 



pp. 453, 486 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above clear olive-yellow, scarcely any 

 lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the latter having brighter 

 yellow edges ; lesser wing-covcrts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts as well as the bastard-wing feathers blackish, externally 

 edged with bright golden yellow : prim arj--co verts and quills blackish, 



* Mr. Lawrence- speaks of a male bird having the whole crown of a deep 

 orange colour. 



