280 MNIOTILTIDiE. 



edged with olive-yellow, brighter and more golden yellow on the 

 quills and especially on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, washed with olive and edged with yellow, all but the centre 

 feathers yellow on the inner web, dull olive-brown on the outer 

 web and across the tip of the inner web, the brown colour increasing 

 and the yellow diminishing towards the centre of the tail ; crown 

 of head light chestnut or bay, forming a cap which reaches as far 

 as the nape ; lores golden yellow, impinging on the base of the 

 forehead ; ej'ebrow, feathers round the eye, and cheeks golden yellow, 

 extending on to the ear-coverts, the hinder portion of which part is 

 olive-yellow like the sides of the neck and back, though slightly 

 streaked with yellow ; entire under surface of body golden yellow, 

 washed with olive on the sides of the breast and flanks ; the cheeks, 

 throat, breast, and sides of body streaked with rich chestnut, more 

 broadly and distinctly on the flanks ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries bright yellow ; quills dusky below, yeUow along the inner web. 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-35, tail 1-95, tarsus 0"7. 



The bird described is one from the Sclater collection marked 

 " Antilles (Verreaux) ;" but, after comparison with Baird's ' Key ' and 

 the descriptions of the American authors, I believe it to be the fuU- 

 plumaged adult of D. melanoptcra of Lawrence, of which I have 

 also examined two authentic specimens — one from Dominica, in the 

 Sclater Collection, and one from Guadeloupe in the collection of 

 Messrs. Salvin and Goc^'nan. Unfortunately these are both females 

 in winter plumage, and therefore some doubt hangs about my 

 identification of the adult male, as certainty in these matters can 

 only be obtained by comparing full-plumaged adults of all this 

 group of Warblers. The name of melanoptera conveys a wrong 

 idea of the specific value of the dark wings, for specimens of D. nifi- 

 capiUa and D. petecliia have quite as black quills, especially in fresh- 

 moulted individuals. 



Adult female in winter plumage. More olive-green than the male 

 and without any rufous on the head, which is only a little clearer 

 yellow than the back, except on the forehead, lores, eyelid, sides of 

 face, and cheeks, which are decidedly brighter yellow ; wing-coverts 

 and quills not so broadly edged with bright yellow as in the male ; 

 under surface of body bright yellow, olive on the flanks, with a few 

 slight indications of chestnut streaks on the throat and breast. Total 

 length 4-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1'9, tarsus 0*75. 



Hah. West Indies : islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Dominica (Ober). Sclater Collection. 



b. cJ ad. sk. [Antilles.] Sclater Collection. 



6. Dendrceca capitalis. 



Dendrceca , Baird, Rev. Amer. B. in text of p. 202 (1865). 



Dendrceca petechia, c. bavbadensis, Sundev. (Efv, K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 



Stockh. iii. p. 608 (1869). 

 Dendroica capitalis, Baird, Bmver, ^- Ridf/iv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. 



p. 217 (1874). 

 Dendrceca capitalis, Laivr. Proc. I'hilud. Acad. 1808, p. ,3.')9 ; Cones, 



B. Color. Vail. p. 256 (1878). 



