7. DENDECECA, 283 



Hah. Most of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago : Ecuador 

 and Peru. 



a, h c? $ ; c. d" juv. Indefatigable Island, Dr. O. Habel [C.]. 



sk- _ August. 



d. S juv. sk. Indefatigable Island, Selater CoUection. 



August (Habel). 



e,f Juv. • (/. Ad. sk. Charles Island. Commander Cookson [CI. 



n- 6 ad. sk. Abmgdon Island Selater Collection. 



{Habel). 



I. Ad. sk. Galapagos Islands Voy. of H.M.S. ' Beagle.' 



,; ,, , { C. Darwin). (Tvpo of species.)" 



*, f. Ad. sk. Gorgona Island. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 



9. Dendrceca vieilloti. 



^y^"^J^fi^_,^?,^^' .(«"« L"t^'-), T'ieill. Nouv. Diet. (T Hist. Nat. xi. 



p. 228 (1817); td. ^- Oud. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 104 (182.5)*. 

 Dendroica eritliachorides, Baird, B. N. Amer p '>8.3 (18.58) 

 Dendroica vieilloti, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1800, p. 192 ;' Baird 

 Review Amer B. p. 203 (1865) ; Baird, Brewer, |- Ridgw. Hid. 

 N. Amer. B. i. p. 217 (1874). '^ y 



Rhimamphus ruficeps, Cab. J. f. O. 1800, p. 326 {e.v VieM. &■ OvdX 

 Dendrreca vieilloti, 8cl. S,- ,Salv. Nomend. Av. Neotr.-p. 9(1873, pt ) • 

 Coues, B Color. Vail. p. 250, note ( 1878) ; Salv. ^ Godm.Biol. 

 tentr.-A^ner., Aves, i. p. 125 (1880, pt.). 

 Mniotilta vieilloti, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 240, no. 3481 (1869). 

 Dendroeca petechia, i. panamensis, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 



IStockh. 1809, p. 009. 

 Mniotilta ruficeps, Giebel, Orn. Thes. ii. p. 606 (1875). 

 Adult. General colour above dusky olive-yellow, a little brio-hter 

 yeUow round the hind neck and on the rump ; mantle and inmer 

 back indistinctly streaked with blackish brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back, but washed with brighter yeUow ; median and greater 

 coverts black, externally edged with bright yeUow ; bastard- wing 

 pnmary-covcrts, and quills blackish, edged with olive-yeUow, brio-hter 

 yellow on the primaries ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive- 

 yellow all but the centre ones yellow on the inner web except near 

 the end of the shaft, where the brown colour of the outer web spreads 

 on to the end of the inner web for a short distance, the yellow 

 somewhat diminishing and the brown increasing towards the centre 

 of the tail ; entire crown of head chestnut-rufous, as also the sides 

 of the lace, car-coverts, cheeks, and throat ; loral plumes with yellow 

 bases : remainder of under surface of body bright vcUow, streaked 

 with chestnut on the breast, sides of the body, and flanks • thi"-hs 

 under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries golden yellow • 

 quills dusky below, yellow along the inner web. Total leno-th 4-4 

 inches, culmen U-5, wing 2-55, tail 2-l)b, tarsus 0-8. ° 



i^rt/>. Panama and Veragua : probably extending into Northern 

 Colombia. 



a. Ad.sk. Gorgona, Panam a. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood [P.]. 



* The plate in the ' Galerie des Oiseaus ' undoubtedly represents the Panama 

 bird, whicii 13 also said to extend to Carthagena. Future research mav confirm 

 this rnn£re, but the only specimens examined bv me from New Granada are 

 diUerent Irom true D. vieilloti and represent an allied form. 



