282 MNIOTILTID^. 



8. DendrcBca aureola. 

 Sylvicola aureola, Gould, Voy. ' Beagle,'' Birds, p. 86, pi. 28 (1841) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 309. 

 Mniotilta aiu-eola, Graj/, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Harid-l. B. i. 



p. 241, no. 3488 (1869). 

 Dendroica aureola, Cass. Pi-oc. Philad. Acad. 1860, p. 192 ; Baird, 



Rev. Amer. B. i. p. 194 (1865) ; Baird, Breiuer, 8^ Ridgiu. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. i. p. 217 (1874). 

 Deudroeca petechia, /. galapagensis, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. 



Fork. Stockh. iii. p. 608 (1869). 

 Deudrceca aureola, Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873) ; 



Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 256 (1878) ; Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 473 



(1876) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 66 ; Tacz. t. c. p. 744 ; id. Orn. 



Perou, p. 467 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, a trifle brighter 

 on the rump ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts blackish, margined and tipped with brighter yellow ; 

 bastard-wing blackish, fringed with golden yeUow; primary- 

 coverts and quiUs blackish, edged with olive-yellow, more golden 

 on the primaries, broader and paler on the secondaries ; upper 

 tail-coverts rather duller than the back ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 washed with olive and edged with brighter yeUow, all but the 

 centre ones bright pale yellow, dark brown along the outer web 

 and across the end of the inner one : crown of the head bright bay, 

 with golden bases to the feathers ; lores and base of the forehead 

 orange-yeUow ; eyebrow, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks bright golden yellow, the ear-coverts washed with olive on 

 the upper edge ; throat and entire under surface brilliant golden 

 yellow ; fore neck and breast as well as the flanks streaked with 

 rufous ; thighs golden yellow, externally olive ; under tail-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillaries bright golden yellow ; quills 

 dusky below, inner edges bright yellow. Total length 4-S inches, 

 culmen 0-o5, wing 2-6, tail 2, tarsus O'So. 



Adult female. Duller in colour than the male and much greener ; 

 head like the back, a little yellower on the forehead ; lores and a 

 narrow eyebrow, sides of face, and under surface of body clear pale 

 eyebrow, a little washed with greenish on the sides of the body and 

 the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; edges of the wing-coverts and 

 quills not nearly so bright as in tlie male ; the brown colour on the 

 inner web of the tail-feathers much more extended, so that the 

 yellow on the inner web is not so distinct. Total length 4-7 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-5, tail 1*9, tarsus 0"85. 



Toung male. Like the old female but greyer, the hind neck and 

 back washed with ashy ; crown of head ashy, washed with yellow : 

 lores ashy, washed with yellowish ; eyelid ashy white ; ear-coverts 

 grey ; wing-coverts and quilLs ashy brown, edged with light yellow, 

 the quills fringed with whitish at the ends ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow, the inner webs also edged with 

 yellow, increasing in extent towards the outer feathers, where it is 

 very broad ; cheeks and under surface of body white, faintly washed 

 with yellow on the fore neck, flanks, and abdomen ; the under 

 tail-coverts washed with brighter yellow ; sides of body nnd flanks 

 ashy, washed with oHve-yeUow. Total length 4-4 inches, cxilmen 

 0-45, wing 2-4, tail 1-85, tarsus 0*75. 



